Agent skill

Amanthro Literature Positioning

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution.

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Install Amanthro Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-literature-positioning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning .claude/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
amanthro-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
726 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution.

  • Works in 6 steps: Engage the conversation, not a citation… → Four-field legibility. Satisfy… → Decenter the canon. AA values World… → …
  • Positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How AA wants the literature…, Cross-subfield engagement (a… and Anti-patterns, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Amanthro Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution. AA readers span sociocultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, 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.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/amanthro-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Engage the conversation, not a citation pile. Identify the live debate or open question your
  2. Four-field legibility. Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) and a generalist reader —
  3. Decenter the canon. AA values World Anthropologies and citational practices that include
  4. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is undertheorized, mis-described,
  5. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior work treats X as Y via concept C; this case shows C
  6. Pre-empt the obvious objection. Acknowledge the strongest rival reading and say how the

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Amanthro Literature Positioning loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 106 tokens; SKILL.md has 726 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~106
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 726 words, ~1,642 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
amanthro-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution. AA readers span sociocultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, 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.

Literature Positioning (amanthro-literature-positioning)

At AA, positioning is not throat-clearing — it is how a four-field readership sees the gap and the move. The goal is to place the paper in a live anthropological conversation that a reader outside your subfield can recognize, while practicing the citational politics AA explicitly values (lifting marginalized voices and knowledges, not only the usual canon).

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" 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 need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior ethnographies/studies

How AA 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 constitute it, including across subfields where relevant.
  2. Four-field legibility. Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) and a generalist reader — an archaeologist should follow a linguistic paper's stakes and vice versa. Spell out subfield jargon.
  3. Decenter the canon. AA values World Anthropologies and citational practices that include scholars, theorists, and interlocutors from the regions and communities studied — not only metropolitan authorities. A bibliography of only Euro-American theorists is a positioning weakness.
  4. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is undertheorized, mis-described, contested, or assumed, and why resolving it advances anthropology.
  5. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior work treats X as Y via concept C; this case shows C fails / is provincial / is better understood as C′."
  6. Pre-empt the obvious objection. Acknowledge the strongest rival reading and say how the evidence adjudicates it (hand off to amanthro-research-design).

Cross-subfield engagement (a distinctive AA demand)

If your paper is…also engage…
a sociocultural ethnography of an institutionthe broader theory of the phenomenon (exchange, kinship, the state) it illuminates
an archaeological reconstructionthe social-theory or comparative literature the material evidence speaks to
a biological/human-variation studythe cultural/social literature on how that variation acquires meaning
a linguistic-anthropology analysisthe social-theory or cultural literature the language practice indexes
reflexive / methodologicalthe substantive literatures the argument bears on, where applicable

Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing debate
  • Engaging only your own subfield (a top AA reframing/reject reason)
  • A bibliography that cites only metropolitan theorists and erases regional/Indigenous scholarship
  • Strawmanning prior work, or hiding the closest competitor ethnography
  • Claiming "first to study" when the contribution is incremental
  • Self-citation that breaks anonymity (AA review is anonymous — see amanthro-submission)

Output format

【Conversation】the live debate / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 that define it (incl. cross-subfield + non-metropolitan)
【Gap】what is undertheorized / mis-described / contested
【Move】how this paper changes the conversation
【Citational politics】are marginalized/regional voices represented? [Y/N]
【Strongest rival reading】and how the evidence will adjudicate it
【Next】amanthro-theory-building
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Engagement depth AA editors expect, by paper type

Because AA is the four-field flagship, "the relevant literature" is rarely just your home subfield's. The desk screen asks whether a non-specialist editor can see the conversation; this table sets the depth that usually clears it.

Paper typeLiterature it must engageThe trap to avoid
Sociocultural ethnographythe general theory (power, exchange, care, the state) the case speaks toa site literature with no portable claim
Archaeological studythe social/comparative theory the material record bears onchronology/typology with no anthropological payoff
Biological anthropologythe cultural literature on meaning, race, or embodimentbiology framed as acultural fact
Linguistic anthropologythe social theory the language practice indexesa grammar/discourse analysis detached from culture
World/Public anthropologythe metropolitan literature it provincializes or repairsengagement that re-centers the canon it critiques

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A hypothetical sociocultural paper on debt among urban traders cites 24 works, 21 of them on one national economy. An AA-calibrated reframe keeps the core cites but adds the anthropology of exchange and obligation that comparativists own, the linguistic work on how debt talk is moralized, and 3 scholars writing from the region itself — re-stating the gap as a general claim ("debt is theorized as economic constraint; this case shows it is a moral idiom of belonging"). The bibliography barely grows, but the contribution now reads as four-field. (Counts illustrative.)

Calibration anchors (hedged)

  • AA's premium is interest to four-field anthropology, so positioning that satisfies only one subfield's frontier is structurally weak even when the within-subfield contribution is real.
  • Citational politics is a stated AA value; confirm the current wording on the live author guidelines.
  • "Engage the relevant literatures" framing and any desk-screen specifics change — verify against the journal's current submission guidelines before relying on them.

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Amanthro Literature Positioning

What does Amanthro Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution. Amanthro Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution.

When should I use Amanthro Literature Positioning?

Amanthro Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Amanthro Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Amanthro Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Amanthro Literature Positioning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning, .github/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/amanthro-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Amanthro Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Amanthro Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Amanthro Literature Positioning access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Amanthro Literature Positioning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Amanthro Literature Positioning use?

Amanthro Literature Positioning is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Amanthro Literature Positioning use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Amanthro Literature Positioning?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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