摘要：This is our first issue as editors of Cultural Anthropology, but more importantly, the issue in which the journal turns thirty, old enough to understand its place in the world, but still young enough to dream of better years ahead. To edit a journal of CA’s quality and legacy is a wonderful honor and a serious responsibility. Of the many excellent anthropology journals in the world, few can claim a more consistent legacy of anticipating and shaping anthropological conversations to come. For thirty years, CA has worked to extend the horizons of the anthropological imagination and helped to give these form, content, and legitimacy. At times restless, at times contemplative, the journal has always sought inspiration from the human sciences more widely, leading to remarkable exchanges with and about narrative, reflexivity, media, postcolonial studies, queer theory, globalization, science and technology studies, poststructuralism, neoliberalism, affect, and most recently reaching toward infrastructure, ethics, multispecies ethnography, and materialist and ontological turns. It is an impressive back catalog, deep in anticipations and inter-illuminations.
