It was a brutal semester even before the coronavirus struck. Delhi is, after all, my beloved city. So, I had felt immensely grateful for the courage women and children showed [...]
Jonathan Spencer: Introduction The following texts were written by students with whom I have worked this year in a course on the anthropology of the political. The pieces were written [...]
On Monday, March 9, 2020 I was on my way to SFO to catch a red eye to New York, where I was scheduled to spend the month, when I [...]
The September 11 attacks in 2001 marked an important turning point in the life of universities in the United States and affected the whole project of knowledge production in several [...]
by John F. Collins and Allen Feldman AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1994. John F. Collins, professor of anthropology at Queens College and [...]
Delhi. Friday, March 20, 5.36pm. The sound of a plane. It takes me back to rural Bengal, to the start of my fieldwork, when I would sit on people’s veranda [...]
“It turns out, writing a dissertation is a lot like being in quarantine!” I joke, frequently, when people ask how I’m doing. But it’s not true. Not exactly. Although I’ve [...]
In the fall of 2019, I began my study of the myriad ways in which one of Pakistan’s commercial port city Karachi’s oldest and largest working class neighborhoods, Lyari Town, [...]
I moved to Piracicaba, a town in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2019 to study how a network of entrepreneurs, financial investor, corporate executives, and agricultural producers [...]
I have spent the past year actively trying to convince myself that I am not sick. This is my attempt to try to reconcile feeling fine or mostly fine, with [...]
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