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ABSTRACTThis essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long‐standing themes in cultural anthropology—tensions between capture and escape, constraint and resistance, structure and agency—even as it suggests that captivity and its unruly failures can productively draw our attention to new ways of thinking about governance, temporality, scale, affect, political economy, posthumanism, ontology, care, and infrastructure. In this review, I ask: What can and cannot be contained in the contemporary moment, and what is at stake in that containment, or in the seepage that exceeds its borders? The review focuses on key ways anthropologists analyzed these long‐standing questions anew in 2018: captivity and the nature of the human, dependency and exile, and violence and borders, and, by contrast, runaway change and uncertainty, unruly people and affects, and seeping waste and toxicity. Overall, I suggest that captivity and seepage provide productive provocations for further study. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, captivity, escape, uncertainty, waste]

ABSTRACT  In 2009, Claude Lévi‐Strauss died at the age of 100. In this article, I draw on frameworks that were central to his work to structure my discussion of the key themes in cultural anthropology publications over the past year. The four subjects I consider in this review are kinship, taxonomy, bricolage, and traveling.

If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. They then examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture, drawing on examples from their own fieldwork. The book ends with an assessment of anthropologys present position, and a look forward to its likely future.

Front Cover -- The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Images of Man and Nature -- NATURE INTO CULTURE -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND ITS IMAGERY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2. Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT -- SYSTEMS -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT (continued) -- CULTURE AND ECOLOGY -- RELEVANCE AND POLICY -- RELEVANCE AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3. Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology -- THE PARADIGM -- ENERGY TRANSFORMATION

Introducing anthropology -- Culture counts -- Doing cultural anthropology -- Communication -- Making a living -- Economics -- Political organization -- Social stratification: class and caste -- Race and ethnicity -- Marriage, family and kinship -- Gender -- Religion -- Creative expression: anthropology and the arts -- Making the modern world: globalization from the fifteenth to the twentieth century -- Anthropology in the twenty-first century: understanding and acting in a challenging world.