“Honestly – I believe it will be surprising for you to hear it from me – I am so scared that the EU and all this mythology of the European [...]
I hung up the phone around 9 pm on March 15, 2020, shaking with anger and frustration. My mother, residing in Yangon, Myanmar, sounded heedless to the global spread of [...]
The howling begins at 8 pm. Starting in April, residents of the Denver, Colorado metro area began marking the time when people stopped what they were doing in their homes [...]
What kind of work is authentically essential? In the midst of a global pandemic, Americans have been introduced to new classifications of some work as essential. Almost as quickly as we [...]
The coronavirus hit fast. One day I was in class preparing to transition to remote learning and the next I was on a plane home to Cincinnati. As I slowly [...]
Covid-19 masquerades in ambiguity. In the past few months, mixed messaging from the U.S. federal government and the lack of a coherent national action plan have left individual states to take [...]
"Whoever is united to us by any connexion is always sure of a share of our love proportion’d to the connexion, without enquiring into his other qualities.” – David Hume [...]
How can we analyze feeling? This question framed “Anthropology and Affect,” a graduate seminar I taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, this past spring semester. As January turned into [...]
When I began a kind of “pedagogic” journal at the start of this academic term, I envisioned its pages slowly expanding as I filled it with my amateur drawings, written [...]
My screen was split into twelve little squares. Eight or nine little faces stared at me as some of my students tuned in from kitchens, bedrooms, and dining rooms across [...]
Promoting rich ethnography and relevant, cutting-edge theory in cultural anthropology since 1842.
AES, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), publishes the journal American Ethnologist, which can be found in AnthroSource.
