Optimistic Anthropology

Your periodic field report from Optimistic Anthropology featuring fresh blog posts, events worth your time, new additions to our resource collection, and updates on what we're up to as we do our work transforming everyday insights into collective wisdom and bring a more just and positive world into being.

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Systems ChangeSystems Change

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8 Years of Optimism

August 2025 | Volume 48

Alison Gold

Primates, Architecture & New Year Wishes!

Alison Gold

Emergent LearningEmergent Learning

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On Memory Keeping & Emergent Learning

Alison Gold

Kissing the Future & Creative Resistance

Alison Gold

If the floorboards are crooked, you might as well dance!

Alison Gold

Systems ChangeSystems Change

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Let's go about this slowly

Alison Gold

Volume 42 - Wishing you a year ahead

Alison Gold

The Optimistic Anthropologist Volume 41 - October 2022

Repairing That Hole In The Universe

The Optimistic Anthropologist Volume 40 - June 2022

I Will Be Here For A Long Time

The Optimistic Anthropologist Volume 39 - March 2022

The Need for Hope and Realities of Pain

The Optimistic Anthropologist Volume 38

Of Mubble-Fubbles and Appreciation!

The Optimistic Anthropologist Volume 37

Dobar dan from Sarajevo!