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. [...]
(Courtesy of Gil Schmerler.) For two years, I have been trying to find a way to talk about Henrietta Schmerler without joining the wake of vultures that [...]
(Photo: David Leins) “Anthropologists Against Pipelines.” This was part of the text of a flyer water protectors from the movement at Standing Rock distributed before a teach-in [...]
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