Essays

  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 [...]

AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition. Lahore is an ancient city. Lahore is a megacity. Though I can think of [...]

In a quiet corner of a park in Jeppestown, an area just east of Johannesburg’s city center, fafi players gather to collect their bags. Fafi, also written as fah-fee or known as umchina, the isiZulu [...]

  Photo taken at Southern California rally in response to the rescission of DACA on September 5, 2017. On February 13, 2018, in a case known as Batalla Vidal [...]

  “A political contribution which we feel we have already made is the expansion of the feminist principle that the personal is political,” wrote the Combahee River Collective in 1977. [...]