Essays

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 [...]

Summer is a good time for academics. Research, reading, and writing—whether at home or in the field or both, summer is often when we catch up on things we’ve been [...]

by Alia Ayman AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition.The 1952 revolution was a turning point in Egypt’s history. The Free Officers [...]

What is it like to study people anthropology (supposedly) despises? The small room that hosted the roundtable session on Anthropology’s “Repugnant Others” at the AES/ABA/ALLA joint meetings in March 2019 [...]

AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition. When the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp was built in 1948 for refugees fleeing their homes and [...]