Awful Anthropology
by Maryam Fouad
One of my interlocutors stood in front of me. In her hand, she held an empty syringe. She said she wants to kill herself. We were in a shelter [...]
Awful Anthropology
Hard To See
by Deborah A. Boehm
Close up of letters from people in US immigration detention, part of “En Medio: Senses of Migrations,” an exhibition at The Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, [...]
Blending Art and Science
by Meghna Roy
“Meghna, are you going to share today?” asked at least one classmate every week of my second semester of fieldwork at the postgraduate program in counseling psychology (colloquially termed [...]
Life, Still Life, and Death in Northern Pakistan
by Hassan F. Virk
Late last year, when I embarked on my journey into the field, I had a cache of theories, methods, and academic training at my disposal. However, all this prior [...]
Living Archives
By Lucas Rozell, Emily Reynolds, and Kathryn E. Goldfarb
The Boulder County Marshall Fire, which sparked on December 30, 2021 after an abnormally dry early winter, took two human lives, killed more than 1000 pets, and destroyed over [...]
The Bird’s Lament
by Chiara Pussetti
The Bird. Photo by Upsplash Oté okpé, ikojóke ona bak ta kandaré nhi kinnan aki n’unkudé ka nhi na tando kanhinan a ki n’unkudé? Oté to kobentén, [...]
El Afecto en la Experiencia Etnográfica de la Muerte
by Oriol Pascual Pérez
“Affect in the Ethnographic Experience of Studying Death,” by Oriol Pascual Pérez, is based on long-term fieldwork conducted in the Poblenou Cemetery of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), focused on the [...]
The Past is a Möbius Strip: Ghosts in Post-Displacement Central Europe
by Karina Hoření
Warning: This text discusses suicide I shouldn’t have been so scared before this research interview. It was the second time I was going to meet this interviewee. The first [...]
For Kostya: Brother, Friend, Warrior
by Hanna Dosenko
A soldier holds a portrait of Kostya at the funeral. Courtesy of Kostya’s family. It was freezing as we carried his coffin to its final resting place. [...]
Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found
by Salwa Tareen
“Nothing is stranger than this business of humans observing other humans in order to write about them,” Ruth Behar noted in The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart [...]
