curranthro-literature-positioning
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 - You want to anticipate **who the commentators will be** and pre-engage their positions ## How CA wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the conversation, not a citation pile.** Identify the live debate or open question your paper speaks to; cite the works that *const
- When to trigger
- How CA wants the literature engaged
- Cross-subfield engagement (a distinctive CA demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Engagement depth CA editors expect, by paper type
- Calibration anchors (hedged)
- Supplementary resources
What does the curranthro-literature-positioning skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.