Essays

When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more than 80,000 Tibetans, fled to Nepal and India following China’s military retaliations against the Tibetan uprisings of 1959, they [...]

I said to her, “I’m grateful to be here, but my life here is not like my life at home. I spent my time there working the nightshift with my [...]

“If people say we are lagging behind, then we are only lagging behind in destroying the earth.” — Akhu Sonam Tashi Our Golden Fatherland, Your Fragile Wasteland Read the opening [...]

Para Alicia I live in a little hell. What is left for me? Tell me, what can be left for me in hell? Margarita, Field notes, May 2018 “There is [...]

AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our Small Grants Competition.Towards the end of his life, Jacob Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, published a recollection of [...]

“You’ve got mail,” my husband said to me, handing me a small envelope. “It’s from the monastery,” he continued. “This can’t be good,” I thought out loud. In 2017-2018, I [...]

When a young person is sick, their parents are typically asked to consent to treatment on their behalf. But what is it that parents are actually consenting to when they [...]

Winter: time to get cozy, to curl up in front of a fire with a good book. From the land of academics dreaming, we bring you the second installment of [...]

  During the penultimate day of the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Professor Emily Martin delivered the biannual Distinguished Lecture to a well-packed and attentive audience. Her [...]

The Scottish National Party (SNP) presents itself as a non-radical civic nationalist party—a traditional party of government, a party to be taken seriously, and one that has capably led the [...]