Read Maya J. Berry’s article in this issue to learn more about Diggs’s life, scholarship, and legacy.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Read Maya J. Berry’s article in this issue to learn more about Diggs’s life, scholarship, and legacy.
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Dr. Berry shows how Diggs utilized her unique position to bridge global north-south divides, challenging an English-only approach to Black thought and insisting that the history of Black people in the U.S. cannot be understood in isolation.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Dr. Berry shows how Diggs utilized her unique position to bridge global north-south divides, challenging an English-only approach to Black thought and insisting that the history of Black people in the U.S. cannot be understood in isolation.
Read the full article by following the link in our bio!
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By situating Diggs’s training in Cuba within the complex landscape of 1940s US imperialism, Berry demonstrates how Diggs navigated the "possibilities and perils" of being a Black woman scholar abroad.
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
By situating Diggs’s training in Cuba within the complex landscape of 1940s US imperialism, Berry demonstrates how Diggs navigated the "possibilities and perils" of being a Black woman scholar abroad.
Drawing on Diggs’s 1978 charge to the next generation, Berry examines the "bounden duty" of Black anthropologists to create autonomous research spaces while maintaining a commitment to transnational collaboration.
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Drawing on Diggs’s 1978 charge to the next generation, Berry examines the "bounden duty" of Black anthropologists to create autonomous research spaces while maintaining a commitment to transnational collaboration.
This Black History Month, we invite you to read Hurston not only for who she was, but for what her work still makes possible.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This Black History Month, we invite you to read Hurston not only for who she was, but for what her work still makes possible.
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In our newest issue of Transforming Anthropology, Dr. Pyar Seth’s article, “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation,” offers a powerful reading of Hurston’s enduring influence on how Black life is studied, written, and imagined.
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
In our newest issue of Transforming Anthropology, Dr. Pyar Seth’s article, “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation,” offers a powerful reading of Hurston’s enduring influence on how Black life is studied, written, and imagined.
Across ethnography, folklore, and fiction, Hurston insisted on Black sociality as full, generative, and intellectually rich. Her work collapsed the distance between observer and observed, transforming fieldwork into relationship, narrative, and care.
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Across ethnography, folklore, and fiction, Hurston insisted on Black sociality as full, generative, and intellectually rich. Her work collapsed the distance between observer and observed, transforming fieldwork into relationship, narrative, and care.
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A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation | Transforming Anthropology: Vol 33, No 2
Abstract Zora Neale Hurston looked for angularity in everyday life, where some cast her as nothing more than a liar. Despite the criticism, she continued on a path toward what she viewed as a…
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In response to recent calls to "let anthropology burn," Seth's article makes the case for a move towards the "fictionalizing" of anthropology, a mode of methodological creativity in the face of objectivity's limitations and the institutional encroachment on black life and knowledge production.
January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In response to recent calls to "let anthropology burn," Seth's article makes the case for a move towards the "fictionalizing" of anthropology, a mode of methodological creativity in the face of objectivity's limitations and the institutional encroachment on black life and knowledge production.
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Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad. J. Brent Crosson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 328 pp. (Paper US$32.00; Cloth US$97.00; E-Book US$31.99) Obeah, O...
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“Feather-Bed Resistance” and Racial Vindication in Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey | Transforming Anthropology: Vol 33, No 2
Abstract Eslanda Goode Robeson (1895–1965) is relatively absent from discussions of Black women in anthropology. Though an American, she studied at the London School of Economics with Bronisław Malino...
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Drawing on Zora Neale Hurston’s concept of “feather-bed resistance,” Williams shows how Robeson “both engaged and disengaged with anthropology’s representational power” to advance her political goals for Black liberation and dignity.
January 10, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Drawing on Zora Neale Hurston’s concept of “feather-bed resistance,” Williams shows how Robeson “both engaged and disengaged with anthropology’s representational power” to advance her political goals for Black liberation and dignity.
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In assembling this issue, co-editor-in-chiefs, Ryan Jobson and Christen Smith, demonstrate that the archives of Black anthropology are not a “stable repository” but are actively reworked and engaged through forms of “wake work,” reclamation, familial practice, and translation.
January 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
In assembling this issue, co-editor-in-chiefs, Ryan Jobson and Christen Smith, demonstrate that the archives of Black anthropology are not a “stable repository” but are actively reworked and engaged through forms of “wake work,” reclamation, familial practice, and translation.