Anthropologists have turned toward care in recent years with the hope that it might lead to a better understanding of the moral dynamics of contemporary social life (e.g. Mol [...]
In the three years that I have been a mother in the United States, I have observed two sorts of reactions to toddlers hugging. The first and more common [...]
One of the enduring challenges of thinking with care, anthropologically, is the polysemy of the term. It is notable, for example, that many of the calls to develop anthropological [...]
One afternoon, I was looking through videos on my phone with a few of the children and teenagers from the Kichwa community of Chawpishungu in Napo, Ecuador. I had [...]
How do survivors tell their stories of sexual violence? How should we listen? And why does it matter that we do? As a PhD student at the University of California, [...]
It’s a familiar sensation. It seizes my hands with a prickling, convulsive pain. Some say when you’re nervous before a public engagement or presentation, your hands shake. Mine don’t. [...]
As the number of displaced people seeking asylum continues to increase globally, the United States government has enacted policies that undermine access to asylum in the US by shifting [...]
Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash.Postcard/thumbnail image for this collection: Hand in Leaf (1973), by Marisol (Marisol Escobar; American, born France, 1930-2016). Published by Universal Limited Art Editions [...]
My love for Amazonian languages was born out of my love for the Amazon rainforest and its peoples. I could have dedicated myself to anything as long as my [...]
In this essay, we offer an anthropological perspective on care and environmental studies, in which we involve more-than-human actors. This conceptualization emerges from our participation in a collaborative project [...]
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