Figure 1: A scribe attempting to locate an entry in the bahī. Photo by author. Much postcolonial scholarship over the last several decades has focused on the [...]
Every weekday morning at approximately 8 a.m., a queue of hospital visitors forms in front of the registration desk at the Occupational Diseases Unit of Lokman Hekim Hospital,<sup>1</sup> located [...]
Algo-r-(h)-i-(y)-thms, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, Tomás Saraceno's solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash. Collection cover image by Joshua [...]
On June 1, 2023, I was in Mexico City at the Universidad Iberoamericana to deliver the opening keynote at the 4th Global Business Anthropology Summit (GBAS). Looking out over [...]
Interview by Yanping Ni (Princeton University) and Yuanhui Ding (University of Amsterdam) Michael Hathaway recently published his book What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make [...]
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 and [...]
Walking in the woods in Željezara neighborhood in Sisak on a windy October afternoon in 2020. Photo by author. Early memories and first embroideries I met Aicha [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic and the case of compulsory cremations was illustrative of how pandemic mediated scapegoating emerged in the context of post-war, post-2019 Sri Lanka. While a largely global [...]
For us here, nothing has changed! Elsewhere, governments are talking about new health regulations and vaccines. But here, it’s always risky and difficult to move and travel! We are [...]
COVID-19 has engulfed the globe since March 2020, but its impact has varied across nationality, gender, religion, race, and class lines. People living in violent geographical spaces faced a [...]
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