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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are seeking articles for the fourth 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology section column of
<i>Anthropology News</i>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The journal is now published exclusively online and is organized thematically. The upcoming theme is
</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#111111">fluidity</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Anthropology News<i> invites submissions on the theme of fluidity. We are looking for stories about blurred boundaries and shifting forms. Stories about flow—whether graceful or unsettling. What
can we learn when we attune to change over substance, to play over essence? How can we understand fluidity in different contexts—in environments, in institutions, in social interactions, in identities?</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Anthropology News</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> publishes pieces that are legible to a broad audience within and beyond the discipline.
Pieces can be either stories or photo essays:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stories—short-form exploration of an interesting topic with detail and depth, up to 1600 words. To get a better sense of the genre, you can see an excellent recent story in the SLA column by Siri Lamoureaux
<a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/scaling-up-the-universe/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Photo essays—six to eight high-quality, visually compelling images + up to 750 words of introductory text. For a great example of a photo essay, see Judit Kroo’s piece from last year
<a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/once-and-future-worlds-in-fukushima-japan-postdisaster-as-emptiness-and-remainder/">
here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If you have an idea that brings a
<b>linguistic anthropological</b> perspective to the theme of </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#111111">fluidity</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">, please contact the SLA column co-editors, Courtney
Handman (</span><a href="mailto:chandman@austin.utexas.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">chandman@austin.utexas.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">) and Sarah Muir (</span><a href="mailto:smuir@ccny.cuny.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">smuir@ccny.cuny.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">).<i> </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Anthropology News</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is able to publish only one SLA piece per theme, and the deadline for initial editorial
review of pitches is <b>August 15, 2025</b> with anticipated publication by December 2025. We encourage submissions from both students and faculty. We provide strong editorial support as well as quick turn-around from submission to publication. Reach out to
us to see if your idea for a story or photo essay on </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#111111">fluidity</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> might be a good fit.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks for your consideration!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Courtney and Sarah</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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