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curranthro-review-process
Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.
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# Review Process & the CA✩ Treatment (curranthro-review-process)
Knowing how CA screens, decides, and *publicly commentates* lets you pre-empt the failure modes before
submitting. CA is the transnational, all-fields journal published by the **University of Chicago Press
for the Wenner-Gren Foundation**, and its defining mechanism is the **CA✩ Treatment** — a layer of
**signed, published peer commentary plus the author's Reply** that no sibling journal applies. The bar is
field-shaping significance plus sound, ethical evidence, *and* an argument that can withstand being
debated in print.
## When to trigger
- Before submitting, to stress-test against editorial screening and the CA✩ commentary
- Choosing the right **article type** (only Major Articles get the full CA✩ Treatment)
- Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations