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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Excuse me, miss. Do I understand you were looking for a particular AF [Artificial Friend]? One you’d seen here before?” “Yes, ma’am. You had her in your window a [...]
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 [...]
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