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Current Anthropology Skills
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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Current Anthropology (CA) — the transnational, all-subfields journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, founded in 1959 by Sol Tax. CA publishes scholarship across the whole of anthropology: sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological/physical anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, plus ethnohistory, prehistory, and applied work. It is distinctively strong on theory, synthesis, and field-shaping interventions for a worldwide audience.
What makes CA unlike any sibling is the CA✩ Treatment: when a Major Article is accepted, the editors solicit signed Comments from an international range of anthropologists, publish those Comments alongside the article, and print the author's Reply with them. The accepted paper appears with its critics and the author's response, all at once. This comment-and-reply apparatus shapes the entire lifecycle — you write to be bold enough to be worth commenting on and robust enough to survive public, signed critique.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic social-science writing toolbox and it is not an econometrics pack repurposed for anthropology. It is a CA-specific stack: a contribution of all-fields, agenda-setting significance, an argument that speaks past its own subfield and rewards the CA✩ commentary, ethnographic and qualitative inference treated as first-class, reflexivity and positionality made explicit, and — at the center — research ethics and accountability: informed consent, anonymization, protection of vulnerable communities, and heritage/repatriation obligations, alongside the Wenner-Gren copyright assignment.
What Is CA, and Why a Dedicated Stack?
CA's constraints differ from a single-subfield journal or a quantitative social-science venue:
| Constraint | Current Anthropology | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | All subfields of anthropology, transnational | The paper must matter beyond its subfield |
| Signature process | CA✩ Treatment — published signed Comments + author's Reply (Major Articles) | Build the argument to reward and survive public critique |
| Premium on | Field-shaping, agenda-setting intervention worth international debate | A narrow, subfield-only description is off-fit for a Major Article |
| Methods | Ethnographic/qualitative first-class; also material, lab, computational | Do not force ethnography into a hypothesis-test template |
| Publisher / sponsor | University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation | Submitted via Editorial Manager; Wenner-Gren copyright |
| Length | Major Article 6,000–10,000 words; Report 3,000–5,000; abstract ≤ 200 | Counts include references and endnotes |
| Article types | Major Article · Report · Forum · Discussion/Comment (≤ 800 words) · Current Applications | Only Major Articles get the full CA✩ commentary |
| Files | `.doc`/`.rtf` text + separate TIFF/EPS figures (not embedded PDF) | Common avoidable upload failure |
| Style | Free-format accepted; final files Chicago author-date, refs alphabetized | DOIs in references; jargon discouraged; legible to nonspecialists |
| Ethics | Consent, anonymization, heritage/repatriation, accountability are central | Ethics is designed in, and is exposed to public Comment |
Official basis checked 2026-06 — facts are anchored to the CA Instructions for Authors (UChicago Press), Wenner-Gren editorial pages, and the journal's About page. Live Editorial Manager prompts, editorial roster, anonymity model, and acceptance figures can change; verify those at submission.
Article types at a glance
- Major Article — field-shaping intervention, 6,000–10,000 words, abstract ≤ 200, up to 12
figures/tables. Receives the CA✩ Treatment (published Comments + Reply).
- Report — sharp finding/provocation/new framework, 3,000–5,000 words, up to 4 figures/tables.
- Forum — curated multi-author debate on a pressing issue.
- Discussion / Comment — reply/critique of a recent CA piece, ≤ 800 words including references.
- Current Applications — open-access section bridging academic and applied anthropology.
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install current-anthropology-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/Current-Anthropology-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/curranthro-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/curranthro-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use curranthro-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my Current Anthropology manuscript.Default Workflow
curranthro-topic-selection
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curranthro-literature-positioning
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curranthro-theory-building
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curranthro-research-design
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curranthro-data-analysis
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curranthro-tables-figures
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curranthro-writing-style (polish)
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curranthro-transparency-and-data (ethics & accountability — also run EARLY)
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curranthro-review-process (incl. the CA✩ Treatment)
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curranthro-submission
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curranthro-rebuttal (R&R letter AND the public CA✩ Reply)curranthro-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on your stage, subfield, and article type. The ethics-and-accountability skill (curranthro-transparency-and-data) should run early as well as before submission. From the very start, ask: who will be invited to comment under the CA✩ Treatment, and what will they say?
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
curranthro-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next (by stage, subfield, type) |
curranthro-topic-selection | All-fields fit; field-shaping, commentary-worthy intervention; article type |
curranthro-literature-positioning | Speak past your subfield; transnational citational practice; map commentators |
curranthro-theory-building | Build a portable, debatable concept + reflexive argument for the CA✩ Treatment |
curranthro-research-design | Defend the design — fieldwork, archival/material, lab/quant — vs. published critique |
curranthro-data-analysis | Disciplined interpretation; honest evidence; quant rigor for bio/archaeology |
curranthro-tables-figures | Exhibits: consent, permissions, heritage; figure caps + TIFF/EPS formats |
curranthro-writing-style | Free-format → Chicago author-date; reach all subfields; jargon-light prose |
curranthro-transparency-and-data | Ethics & accountability: consent, anonymization, repatriation, WG copyright |
curranthro-review-process | Screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ comment-and-reply Treatment |
curranthro-submission | Editorial Manager preflight (caps, file formats, ethics, Wenner-Gren copyright) |
curranthro-rebuttal | Both the R&R response letter AND the published CA✩ Reply to Comments |
Resources
resources/external_tools.md— anthropology data sources, archives, and software (CAQDAS, transcription, GIS, lab/quant) by subfieldresources/official-source-map.md— official CA / Wenner-Gren / UChicago Press URLs behind every fact and live-check guardrailresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— before→after CA-style introduction (fictional)resources/exemplars/library.md— real, web-verified CA papers by subfield × method, with a sibling-journal guard
Differences vs. Sibling Journals
| Journal | Scope / format | This pack's guard |
|---|---|---|
| Current Anthropology (CA) | All-subfields, transnational; CA✩ comment-and-reply Treatment; Wenner-Gren/UChicago Press | The target of this pack |
| American Anthropologist (AA) | Four-field AAA flagship (Wiley); no comment apparatus | CA has the CA✩ Comments + Reply; AA does not; different owner/portal |
| American Ethnologist (AE) | Sociocultural ethnography (AAA/AES) | CA is all-subfields, not AE's sociocultural focus |
| Cultural Anthropology (CulAnth) | Sociocultural, theory-forward (SCA), often open access | CA is all-subfields with the CA✩ format, not CulAnth's sociocultural-only remit |
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's, reviewer's, or commentator's taste
- It does not grant ethics waivers or replace IRB/community review
- It does not hard-code volatile metadata beyond sourced facts; verify Editorial Manager prompts, editorial roster, anonymity model, and acceptance figures on the live pages
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Current Anthropology (UChicago Press) — journal home, Instructions for Authors
- Wenner-Gren Foundation — sponsor; editorial announcements
License
MIT