The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Hoeyer, Klaus, Helmreich, Stefan

“…This special issue of Current Anthropology explores how genes, cells, bodies, and populations as well as technologies, disciplines, and research areas become imbued with potential. …”
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Regime shifts in Balinese Subaks by Lansing, J. Stephen, Cheong, Siew Ann, Chew, Lock Yue, Cox, Murray P., Ringo Ho, Moon-Ho, Arthawiguna, Wayan Alit

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Potential Energy and the Body Electric by Helmreich, Stefan

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Recent Periodicals: Local History, Family and Community History, Cultural Heritage, Folk Studies, Anthropology - A Review (2016) by R. Vladova

“…The inspected journals are: Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy, Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education, Current Anthropology, Family and Community History, Folklore, History and Memory, Journal of Family History, Journal of Folklore Research, Past & Present, Winterthur Portfolio. …”
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Ontogeny by Nasser Suleiman Gabryel

“…It involves studying its institutional and intellectual development.The philosophical anthropology is an essential matrix of the current anthropology; its study allows us to understand the historic shape of intellectualization of the concepts and the work of definition which notably begins in the XVI century with Montaigne and in the XVIII century with Kant. …”
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O ZASTOSOWANIU ELEMENTÓW ETNOGRAFII PRZEDTEKSTOWEJ W BADANIU INSTYTUCJI OPIEKI MEDYCZNEJ by Hubert Wierciński

“…I consider this scrutiny as reflexive, magnifying and open for various stimulius coming to researcher from the investigated word, and thus, as a main pretextual tool in current anthropology. …”
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Deciphering Ontologies: Divination and "Infinition" in Classic Maya Inscriptions by Alonso Zamora

“…In many forms, important trends of current anthropology, like the ontological turn, have been left aside in the analysis of the ancient artistic testimonies of the indigenous people of the Americas, thanks to the inevitable gap and lamentable misunderstandings between ethnology, archaeology and art history. …”
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Blockchain financialization, neo-colonialism, and Binance by Olivier Jutel

“…Crypto and blockchain thus represent extensions of “subprime empire” (Schuster, Current Anthropology, 2021, 62, 389–411) in which marginal economic activities in fragile developing world contexts feed into the North-South extraction of value. …”
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Learning to Read the Great Chernobyl Acceleration: Literacy in the More-than-Human Landscapes by Brown, Kate

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Clifford Geertz. In memoriam by Richard Handler

“…En la primavera de 1991, Adam Kuper, por entonces director de Current Anthropology, y por derecho propio destacado historiador de la disciplina antropológica, me pidió realizar una entrevista a Clifford Geertz. …”
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Panorama de la Antropología del Turismo desde Sur by Javier Hernández-Ramírez, Xerardo Pereiro Pérez, Roque Pinto

“… Han pasado más de tres décadas desde que Dennison Nash (1981) planteara en la revista Current Anthropology el debate sobre la pertinencia del turismo como objeto de estudio en la Antropología Social. …”
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Perspectivas antropológicas sobre las formas de (ganarse la) vida by María Inés Fernández Álvarez, Mariano Perelman

“…Una de las reflexiones más sugerentes en esta dirección fue formulada por Susana Narotzky y Niko Besnier en un número especial de Current Anthropology publicado en el año 2014, cuya traducción al español abre este número temático de la Revista Cuadernos de Antropología Social. …”
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Introducción. El gesto comparativo: desplazamiento, posibilidad y limites en el ámbito de la intervención social. by Benjamin Denecheau, Irene Pochetti, Fabiola Miranda Pérez, Eduardo Canteros Górmaz

“…The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography. Current Anthropology ,13(5), 527-542. Pons, X. (2017). …”
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Antropologies and the question of man by Juan A. Estrada

“…It concludes with some indication of the current anthropological discussion.…”
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Who wears The Jacket? by Maggio, R

“…This might be interpreted as a reflection of current anthropological changes in Austria, particularly in the meaning of masculinity and femininity.…”

Portalis et la prohibition de l’inceste by Gérard Courtois

“…Portalis’ argumentation is set in the light of current anthropological theories.…”
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Introduction. Indigenous visual and oral registers of non-humans in South American contexts of transformations by Juan Javier Rivera Andía

“…The final picture of these current anthropological ethnographies depicts some of the contrasted contents and forms that are nowadays being highlighted by ontologically-inflected Amerindian studies. …”
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The Morality of Friendship in Touristic Cuba by Valerio Simoni

“…By drawing attention to the moral, idealistic and aspirational qualities of friendship in touristic Cuba, the article contributes to the current anthropological literature on friendship, showing some of its limits as well as possible analytical pathways for the future research. …”
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Sem palavras: etnografia, hegemonia e quantificação by João de Pina Cabral

“…Adapting Bourdieu’s concept of ‘strategy’ to examples taken from the ethnography of Alto Minho (NW Portugal), the essay attempts to go beyond the sociocentric framework that still dominates current anthropological theory.…”
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Revaluing Gender and Religion in the Anthropological Debate of the Anthropocene: A Critique on the Threefold Culture–Nature–Supernature Divide by Catrien Notermans, Anke Tonnaer

“…This study argues that current anthropological research on human–nature relatedness lacks an explicit focus on gender and religion. …”
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