During the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole world stared disease and death in the face. Not everyone was impacted equally, however. While the virus emphasized the vulnerability of each human [...]
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 opinions [...]
Anthropologists have turned toward care in recent years with the hope that it might lead to a better understanding of the moral dynamics of contemporary social life (e.g. Mol [...]
In the three years that I have been a mother in the United States, I have observed two sorts of reactions to toddlers hugging. The first and more common [...]
One of the enduring challenges of thinking with care, anthropologically, is the polysemy of the term. It is notable, for example, that many of the calls to develop anthropological [...]
One afternoon, I was looking through videos on my phone with a few of the children and teenagers from the Kichwa community of Chawpishungu in Napo, Ecuador. I had [...]
How do survivors tell their stories of sexual violence? How should we listen? And why does it matter that we do? As a PhD student at the University of California, [...]
It’s a familiar sensation. It seizes my hands with a prickling, convulsive pain. Some say when you’re nervous before a public engagement or presentation, your hands shake. Mine don’t. [...]
As the number of displaced people seeking asylum continues to increase globally, the United States government has enacted policies that undermine access to asylum in the US by shifting [...]
Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash.Postcard/thumbnail image for this collection: Hand in Leaf (1973), by Marisol (Marisol Escobar; American, born France, 1930-2016). Published by Universal Limited Art Editions [...]
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