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by Janelle S. Taylor   A few years ago, I moved out of the university office that I had occupied for many years. I kept the place relatively neat, but I [...]

“Don’t you ever, ever feel, like you’re less than fuckin’ perfect.” (Fuckin’ Perfect, Pink) The fieldnotes I have chosen to reflect on come from fieldwork I carried out in Lisbon, [...]

“[O]ur stories are silenced too often. The struggles and trials that women anthropologists must endure and overcome to get access to some of the same field sites and data as [...]

When I flew from the US to Russia, from Chicago to Vladivostok, the COVID-19 pandemic was not yet a pandemic. From the news, Russia seemed to be doing better [...]

One’s fieldnotes mirror one’s fieldwork, not simply because they record ethnographic observations but because they shed light on the life of the observer in the field (Devereux 1967). When I [...]

According to Anna Tsing and her Matsutake Worlds Research Group, “[g]ood fieldwork is supposed to change the fieldworker’s research questions” (2009, 382). This requires the fieldworker to “allow research objects [...]

I could not write. I would get back to my apartment in the center of San Pedro Sula, and I could not write. I would pull my little red-orange hatchback [...]

As an anthropology student in the United States, I have learned that fieldnotes are the bread and butter of ethnographic research. Over the course of my undergraduate, MA, and PhD [...]

After months of a seemingly endless pandemic, delayed plans, and many hesitations, I was finally able to begin my dissertation fieldwork in May 2021. I had spent countless hours longing [...]