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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
AA is the flagship four-field journal of the American Anthropological Association. The bar is not "new to my subfield" — it is "matters to anthropology broadly." A great paper makes a finding in sociocultural, archaeological, biological, or linguistic anthropology legible and useful to readers in the other fields. Use this skill to pressure-test fit and section before you invest.
A strong AA paper usually clears all four:
stakes are anthropology's enduring questions: culture, power, kinship, exchange, language, embodiment, deep history, human variation, colonialism and its afterlives.
accounts for something — a new concept, a reframing, a decisive case, a corrected record.
bioanthropological, or linguistic — each is welcome but each must be rigorous and reflexive (see amanthro-research-design).
accountable; consent and care are part of the design, not an afterthought (see amanthro-transparency-and-data).
| Home subfield | Reach to four-field anthropology by… |
|---|---|
| Sociocultural | draw the portable concept/mechanism, not just the ethnographic particular; speak to theory others can use |
| Archaeology | connect material/temporal evidence to general claims about social life, not only site chronology |
| Biological / physical | tie human-variation or evolutionary findings to social and cultural meaning, not biology alone |
| Linguistic | show what the language data reveal about culture, power, or cognition beyond the grammar |
| Reflexive / public | make the methodological/ethical/political stake one the whole discipline shares |
editors' discretion on acceptance).
image/sound/film is part of the argument (see amanthro-tables-figures).
【Question】one sentence
【Four-field reach】who outside the subfield cares, and why
【Contribution type】concept / reframing / decisive case / corrected record
【Section】Research Article / Vital Topics / World / Public / Multimodal / Review Essay
【Ethics flag】any consent / community-accountability / heritage issue to design for now?
【Fit verdict】strong / needs reframing / off-fit (why)
【Next】amanthro-literature-positioning../../resources/external_tools.md — data/archives/lab sources by subfield../../resources/official-source-map.md — AA sections and scope~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.