{"title":"What does anthropology do now?","authors":"Agustín Fuentes","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Writing amid sustained attacks on the academy, from terminated grants and the mandated removal of gender and race content to a commissioned report questioning anthropology's rigour, Agustín Fuentes asks what the discipline should do now. His answer is to do more anthropology, and to do it together. He identifies three avenues. Teaching counters the delegitimation of knowledge. Collaboration counters the isolation and defunding of scholars. And the recognition of new modes of scholarship counters the narrowing of what is allowed to count. Against a politics that drives inequality, oppression and hopelessness, he argues that anthropology offers grounded, evidence-based hope, and that the discipline should use it more forcefully, intentionally and communally.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 4","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148695969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's the deal with the Green Deal?: Moral economy and farmers' protests in Poland","authors":"Agata Hummel, Amanda Krzyworzeka","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores Polish farmers’ resistance to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), focusing on the 2023-2024 protests against the European Green Deal (EGD). Drawing on ethnographic research, it argues that farmers’ opposition is rooted less in environmental issues than in a conflict of moral economies. The protests reveal a clash of values in which farmers’ understanding of the economy, occupational identity and national belonging converge in a struggle for autonomy against an EU farming model perceived as alien and invasive. The EU is seen as economically unjust and as a threat to traditional farming life and national sovereignty. Historical memory, especially of forced collectivization and foreign control, deepens this distrust. While farmers engage strategically with state support, their sense of freedom is treated as non-negotiable when external control becomes too invasive. The article calls for a more nuanced, anthropological understanding of rural protest, emphasizing the interplay of economic, historical, cultural and political factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 4","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148695970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ahom look East: Reconstructing Tai Ahom identity","authors":"Amporn Jirattikorn","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines recent transnational engagements between the Tai Ahom of Assam, India, and the Shan of Myanmar, focusing on efforts to build new affinities between these groups. Drawing on ethnographic research from the First International Tai Youth Festival in January 2025, it traces how Shan participants sought to revive Tai Ahom culture through language instruction, ritual knowledge and performance, positioning themselves as the cultural origin point of the Tai world. This ‘civilizing mission’ expresses both a desire to restore what they see as lost Tai-ness and to elevate Shan cultural authority within a broader imagined Tai alliance. For the Tai Ahom, such exchanges are part of an ‘Ahom looks East’ movement, a cultural revival that also challenges Hindu nationalist pressures. By asserting Tai identity over Hinduized assimilation, they construct an alternative belonging based on transnational kinship. These interactions reflect a wider contemporary trend of alliances rooted in affinity ─ relationships often described as ‘renewed’, though more accurately imagined or invented.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 3","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How not to fight ‘populism’: Passionate advice from ambivalent Netanyahu supporters amid unprecedented crises","authors":"Ori Mautner","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers a real-time ethnographic analysis of why Israel's massive anti-government protest movement has hitherto failed to unseat Netanyahu's coalition despite widespread criticism from his own voters. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among working-class Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent) who ambivalently support Netanyahu, it shows how they condemn government failures – especially following Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack – yet refuse to join the protesters, whom they feel treat them with disdain. Their reflections reveal that opposition efforts do not falter primarily over policy disagreements but over perceived symbolic and social exclusion, the refusal to recognize the political legitimacy of working-class Mizrahim and their sensibilities. Unusually, these supporters offer concrete advice on how – and how not – to challenge right-wing ‘populist’ politics, guidance that has implications for understanding the conditions sustaining the Gaza war and for opposition movements elsewhere.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 3","pages":"24-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment: Keith Hart in conversation","authors":"Catherine Alexander, Huon Wardle","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Setting the stage: Geertz and Balinese cockfights – A post scriptum","authors":"Henk Schulte Nordholt","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines a significant discrepancy between Clifford Geertz's published account of his fieldwork experience in Bali and his original fieldnotes. The analysis focuses on the famous opening scene of ‘Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight’, where Geertz describes fleeing from a police raid with villagers – an incident he portrays as transforming him from an ignored outsider into an accepted insider. By comparing previously unavailable fieldnotes from both Clifford and Hildred Geertz with the published narrative, the author reveals substantial contradictions in the timeline, events and their aftermath. The fieldnotes show no evidence of the initial ‘awayness’ period or subsequent ‘euphoric embrace’ that Geertz described, suggesting he significantly reimagined the event when writing his essay 14 years later. This discovery raises important questions about ethnographic authority; the relationship between field experiences and published accounts; and the increasingly blurred boundaries between anthropology and literature. The article concludes by reflecting on the ethical implications of Geertz's narrative choices and their influence on contemporary anthropological writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 3","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front and Back Covers, Volume 42, Number 3. June 2026","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Front cover caption, volume 42 issue 3</p><p>GEERTZ'S BALINESE COCKFIGHT</p><p>Man with a cock in a basket, Bali, c. 1920–1935. This photograph, taken some two decades before Clifford Geertz arrived in Tihingan in April 1958, documents the cultural practice that would later become the subject of one of anthropology's most celebrated essays.</p><p>Geertz's Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight (1972) transformed the cockfight from a local pastime into an icon of interpretive anthropology, a text through which generations of scholars have read Balinese culture. The image captures something close to what Geertz himself sought to convey: the quiet intimacy between a Balinese man and his bird, the careful tending, the moment of stillness that precedes public spectacle. The cock in its woven basket is not yet in the ring; it is at home, where the relationship that makes the fight meaningful is formed.</p><p>Yet the very practice that drew Geertz's interpretive attention also draws Henk Schulte Nordholt's historical scrutiny. By comparing Geertz's published account of the famous police raid with the fieldnotes preserved in the Geertz papers, Nordholt reveals that the dramatic transformation Geertz described, from ignored outsider to embraced insider, appears nowhere in the contemporaneous record. The fieldnotes show no 10-day period of social rejection, no euphoric morning-after embrace, no hastily arranged tea table. What they show instead is fieldwork proceeding methodically, the day after the raid given over to careful notes on a temple ceremony.</p><p>The photograph thus marks the gap between the anthropologist as observer of events and the anthropologist as author of narratives. Nordholt's question is whether literary ambition came to overshadow historical accuracy in Geertz's account, and whether the discipline's enthusiasm for thick description has at times allowed the construction of compelling stories to take precedence over the patient work of getting the record right.</p><p>Back cover caption, volume 42 issue 3</p><p>Protest wall, Tel Aviv</p><p>In this issue, Ori Mautner examines why Israel's anti-government protest movement, unprecedented in scale, has failed to unseat the very government even its supporters often describe as inept and corrupt. Drawing on 14 months of fieldwork in Ramle among working-class Mizrahim who ambivalently vote Likud, the article centres advice from those the opposition needs most to convince –and most consistently alienates.</p><p>The cover image, photographed by the author on a Tel Aviv street, shows a wall layered with protest stickers and posters. The poster at right reads Mahriv Yisrael, ‘Destroyer of Israel’, over a stencilled portrait of the prime minister. The round black stickers repeat Movil le-milhemet ahim, ‘Leading to a war among brothers’. The yellow rectangles read Memshelet ha-bizah, ‘Government of plunder’, under a row of cabinet ministers’ faces.</p><p>Read as a single artefact, the wall s","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 3","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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