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curranthro-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as an all-fields, agenda-setting contribution that can withstand the CA✩ comment-and-reply Treatment. CA readers and commentators span every subfield and many world traditions, so the paper must engage the conversations they expect and decenter a US/Anglophone-only canon. Stakes the contribution and citational politics; it does not write the lit review.

When to use

• Positioning a Current Anthropology manuscript against the literature
• Drafting or revising the introduction and intervention paragraph
• Engaging live anthropological conversations across subfields
• Practicing transnational citational politics
• Anticipating likely commentators and pre-engaging their positions
• Naming the gap and positioning the intervention as a move

When not to use

• Writing the lit review

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