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amanthro-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution. AA readers span sociocultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, 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 an AA manuscript against the literature
• Drafting or revising the introduction and contribution paragraph
• Engaging live anthropological conversations across subfields
• Decentering the US/Anglophone canon
• Distinguishing contribution from closest prior studies
• Practicing citational politics to include marginalized voices

When not to use

• Writing the literature review
• Research design
• Submission process

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