This article provides an overview of the main European social anthropology journals during 2019. It uses the concept of Exquisite Corpses, a technique devised by the Surrealists, an avant‐garde art group of the early 20th century, to suggest a practice of transmitting knowledge across periods of fracture. It argues that this process characterises the way that some aspects of social anthropology’s canon continue to be transmitted and remain influential, despite having been superseded by time, fashion and changes in social and academic attitudes. A wide range of scholarship is highlighted. Topics focused on include time, relations, borders, bureaucracy, ethics, and the challenges faced by academics in general and anthropologists in particular. These challenges are driven by the emergence of an authoritarian spirit across a number of fields in Europe and beyond, continuing austerity following on from the economic crisis, and the consolidation of an audit culture that drives the university in an ever more neoliberal direction. Despite the current rigorous climate, European social anthropology continues to be vital and relevant.

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精致的尸体和向后看：欧洲社会人类学2019

本文概述了2019年欧洲主要的社会人类学期刊。本文使用了“精致尸体”的概念，该概念由超现实主义者（一种20世纪初期的前卫艺术团体）设计，旨在提出一种跨学科传播知识的实践。骨折期。它认为，这一过程是社会人类学经典的某些方面得以继续传播和保持影响的方式的特征，尽管它已被时间，时尚以及社会和学术态度的变化所取代。重点介绍了各种奖学金。关注的主题包括时间，关系，国界，官僚主义，伦理学，以及普通学者尤其是人类学家所面临的挑战。这些挑战是由欧洲及其他地区各个领域的专制主义精神的出现，经济危机之后的紧缩政策以及使大学向新自由主义方向发展的审计文化的巩固所驱动的。尽管当前气候严酷，但欧洲社会人类学仍然至关重要。