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curranthro-theory-building

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Use when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript into an agenda-setting, all-fields contribution that can anchor the CA✩ comment-and-reply Treatment — whether the work is ethnographic, archaeological, biological, or linguistic. CA rewards a portable, debatable concept and reflexive argument over a bare finding or thick description alone. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses or write fieldnotes.

When to use

• Building conceptual/theoretical arguments for Current Anthropology manuscripts
• Structuring ethnographic, archaeological, biological, or linguistic papers
• Defining key analytic concepts and interpretive logics
• Stating scope conditions and portability
• Incorporating reflexivity and positionality into the argument
• Running the commentary stress test for Major Articles

When not to use

• Running analyses
• Writing fieldnotes

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