THE WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION (WAU) CONGRESS 2025 “UNEARTHING HUMANITY: CRITICAL AND URGENT EPISTEMIC REDEFINITIONS IN WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES”, ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA, NOVEMBER 3–8, 2025

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The World Anthropological Union (WAU) 2025 Congress, themed “Unearthing Humanity: Critical and Urgent Epistemic Redefinitions in World Anthropologies,” took place in Antigua, Guatemala, from November 3 to 8, 2025. This event marked the second WAU Congress. In 2023, the WAU Steering Committee declared that, starting with the Johannesburg Congress in South Africa, the WAU Congress would serve as the successor to the longstanding IUAES Congresses, a tradition that began in 1934.