Current issue: March–April 2023 Digital
AN 64.2 plugs in for an issue about digital life. Join us on a technological journey as we discuss data and creative decision-making in a Hollywood media company, hang out with the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, learn how digital snapshots foreground lives lost to COVID, and more.
Jan–Feb 2023: 8 Articles
Sex
AN 64.1 is filled with stories about sex and one or two about gender too. Welcome to our “Sex” issue, from migration to biotech, sex toys to saunas.
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Nov–Dec 2022: 8 Articles
After Dark
AN 63.6 stays up late for an issue about life after dark. Join us on a nighttime journey as we warm up with a group of Ethiopian athletes, find out how the Classic Mayas spent their nights, take a walk with an insomniac in Belgrade, and more.
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Sep–Oct 2022: 10 Articles
Play
AN 63.5 tells stories about play and games. We caper with a juvenile spider monkey, reflect on the Nintendo Game Boy’s transformation into music-making machine, learn how Slovakians responded to the country’s vaccine lottery, and more.
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Jul–Aug 2022: 13 Articles
Move
AN 63.4 is filled with stories about movements of all kinds—linguistic, migratory, existential, and locomotive. Welcome to our “Move” issue, from barbells to bicycles, football to TikTok. We hope you enjoy it.
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May–Jun 2022: 8 Articles
Waste
In AN 63.3 we share human and more-than-human stories about waste—from ghost nets to excrement, litter data to landfill. We hope you enjoy it.
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Mar–Apr 2022: 9 Articles
Work
AN 63.2 tells stories about work in its many forms. We dive into the night shift at one of the United Kingdom’s largest wholesale markets, discuss the affective labor of teleradiology workers, take a behind-the-scenes look at real-life professional organizing, and more.
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Jan–Feb 2022: 8 Articles
Music
Anthropology News 63.1 tunes up for a medley of musical delights. Welcome to our “Music” issue, from metal mosh pits to a Stone Age spinning disk, Egyptian mahraganat to running a record label. We hope you enjoy it.
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Nov–Dec 2021: 8 Articles
Truth and Responsibility
Anthropology News 62.6 delves into stories about truth and responsibility—complex, urgent, fraught, and compromising.
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