It has now been more than 50 years since I conducted ethnographic research for my PhD dissertation in San Jerónimo Amanalco, a bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish speaking community high in the [...]
As an anthropologist, I am drawn to fiction for how it can help us to see how people have made their lives in the past, how we live in [...]
“First of all, children are not commodities. They did not ask to be born, so they have every right to lead their lives in their own way. It is [...]
Not long after the start of my fieldwork in a town in Northeast Italy, I was invited for pizza by members of an association formed by professional dementia care [...]
The Unforgotten. Artwork by Suhad Daher-Nashif (2024). In many Arab countries where state and religion are closely linked, states rely on religious institutions to govern their populations [...]
Well why am I talking about the past if you’re talking about the future? Oh. Because you said you were planning on doing stuff that you hadn’t been able [...]
Maldisposta. Feeling unwell, a kind of general not-feeling-so-good, mostly associated with indigestion, fatigue, aches, lightheadedness, brain fog, and other symptoms. It can also mean “feeling bad,” or feeling irritable, [...]
In 2022, a press release from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that six out of seven people in the world experience feelings of insecurity. The special report [...]
Is digital acceleration a threat to our older interlocutors? To what extent does being insecure about contemporary digital tools affect people’s everyday lives? Or is this insecurity caused by [...]
Jean can’t speak words anymore.¹ The words don’t form in her mouth, always open, almost like birds that forgot how to fly and remain trapped in the open cage. [...]
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