As two graduate students preparing to “enter the field,” we increasingly find ourselves contemplating an important, yet uncomfortable, question: How will we know if we are doing ethical anthropology? [...]
Question posed by a user on r/MaladaptiveDreaming. Photo Credit: Reddit The YouTube video starts with silence, so heavy that I initially suspected a problem with [...]
AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th Anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1997. Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, interviews [...]
Our daughter, enjoying Pride festivities at Praça do Comércio in Lisbon. We were there for Andrea to conduct fieldwork in Portugal, which is the homeland of Tracy's parents. [...]
Introduction In our current moment, Sara Ahmed (2012, 51) writes, we inhabit institutional lives in which “diversity as a term seems ubiquitous.” With properties ranging from “official policy statements” to [...]
Sophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, [...]
Editors’ note: Though it plays with “advice column” in form, the goal of Yours Sincerely, An Uncertain Anthropologist is not to elicit prescriptive answers nor to develop universal disciplinary principles. The views [...]
I have long been wistful for my first field site of Yemen, but as I have been unable to return there, I decided to go to the island of Soqotra [...]
The French system of asylum is steeped with liquid metaphors. Scholars have highlighted the ways in which demographers, politicians and media have long tapped into hydraulics and hydrology to [...]
Introduction In 2014, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no gender-related cases can be arbitrated at the village level; any assembly of this nature remains unconstitutional. 1 This judgement [...]
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