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Use when positioning a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as an all-fields, agenda-setting contribution that can withstand the CA✩ comment-and-reply Treatment. CA readers and commentators span every subfield and many world traditions, so the paper must engage the conversations they expect and decenter a US/Anglophone-only canon. Stakes the contribution and citational politics; it does not write the lit review.

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# Literature Positioning (curranthro-literature-positioning)

At CA, positioning is not throat-clearing — it is how an all-fields readership *and your future
commentators* see the gap and the move. Because Major Articles receive the **CA✩ Treatment** (signed
Comments from international scholars, then your Reply), the literature you engage doubles as a map of
*who will be invited to comment*. Position the paper in a **live anthropological conversation** a reader
outside your subfield can recognize, while practicing the citational politics a transnational journal
expects (engaging scholarship from the regions and traditions you study, not only the metropolitan canon).

## When to trigger

- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "intervention" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate"
- Your subfield literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to anthropology broadly
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