In late 2023, my friend and longtime resident of the Indonesian coastal city Semarang, Pak Puji, sent me a cellphone video displaying the spread of the water hyacinth on [...]
Hasnapur’s post office is a modest complex which also houses an Aadhaar (national identification number) registration center. Although the latter opens at 9 AM, applicants are advised to begin [...]
Nothing seems to be enough. Biodiversity is plummeting, pollution is ever on the rise, and global warming is a visceral presence. Efforts taken so far to mitigate or adapt [...]
How do people live in a world that is characterized by crisis, uncertainty, and a profound sense of not-knowing? How do people act, socially and politically, amidst conditions not [...]
Photo by Xu Haiwei on Unsplash “I don’t even know who is human anymore? I open my phone and I am wondering if what I see is [...]
It has now been more than 50 years since I conducted ethnographic research for my PhD dissertation in San Jerónimo Amanalco, a bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish speaking community high in the [...]
As an anthropologist, I am drawn to fiction for how it can help us to see how people have made their lives in the past, how we live in [...]
“First of all, children are not commodities. They did not ask to be born, so they have every right to lead their lives in their own way. It is [...]
Not long after the start of my fieldwork in a town in Northeast Italy, I was invited for pizza by members of an association formed by professional dementia care [...]
The Unforgotten. Artwork by Suhad Daher-Nashif (2024). In many Arab countries where state and religion are closely linked, states rely on religious institutions to govern their populations [...]
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