While #anthrotwitter isn't always rosy, we have to ask: what's happening in @AmericanAnthro's Communities listserv? As anthropologists, we can examine peoples' practices and explore their broader meanings; pls add ethnographic data to this thread so we can understand these people
Update! Some might say this is anthropology in the 'salvage' tradition, so we should be clear that the culture of @AmericanAnthro’s Communities listserv is surviving and thriving. Some recent data
https://twitter.com/nasrat/status/1281549633085374470?s=21
with an endogamous approach to social reproduction,
https://twitter.com/allergyPhD/status/1198508052779020288
It presents an opportunity for comparative study
https://twitter.com/nasrat/status/1281556067466522625?s=21
and some have even proposed a Wagnerian reversal - the group will both analyse itself and its analysts
https://twitter.com/tsd1888/status/1281271416193777665
An interesting example of reverse anthropology in action: 
The listserv community is open for multiple focuses of analysis. Some have suggested:
How or if they consider their colleagues;
How or if they consider their colleagues;
https://twitter.com/dadadocot/status/1281606929828114432
how the practices and values within this community compare to others, and what might be causing the culture of this group to be so unique;
https://twitter.com/MARspidermonkey/status/1281620204066410497
ongoing questions about power, hierarchies,
https://twitter.com/sarahshulist/status/1281617162831048704
and ethnohistorical work which could examine how the group tells its own history.
https://twitter.com/scott_a_ross/status/1281618804515250180
There are, of course, many questions about the ethics and politics of access,
https://twitter.com/Ethnography911/status/1282293367146250241
but there is the possibility for multimodal work, like a museum or art exhibition, that could use the traditions of these people as a mode of educating others.
https://twitter.com/ChickashaJenny/status/1281638641400459264
Like with all ethnography, it'll focus on unclear boundaries, like that which separates event from structure, or nightmares from reality, or bad apples from orchards,
https://twitter.com/MythriJega/status/1282344604457553920
and in so doing, the study will also help us to examine anthropology itself.
https://twitter.com/Thurka149/status/1278426267344396289
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