A Love Letter She Might Never Read by Aika Sato
This piece is part of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer (1996). To learn is to steal, [...]
Life Like a Statement by María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
This piece is part of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer (1996). Prelude I wrote the below [...]
On Grief and Professional Solitude by Lalaie Ameeriar
This piece is part of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer (1996). I heard the phone [...]
Dilemmas of the Mother-Anthropologist by Gwen Burnyeat and Juliana Franco Calvo
This piece is part of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer (1996). When we met in [...]
Revisiting Heritage and Homelessness by David Tutchener
This piece is part of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer (1996). During my final two years [...]
Anthropology that Breaks your Heart: The Risk of Proximity by Alexandra Dantzer
This is the Introduction to the second instalment of the "Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart" series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar's The Vulnerable Observer (1996). Please [...]
Listening, Response-Ability, and the Disappearance of Mexico’s Last Glacier
by Amanda Macedo Macedo
In Río de Niebla, Río de Adobe, Río de Sangre (2023–2024), an exhibition by Tania Ximena (Mexico, 1986), the artist invites viewers to inhabit a shifting territory, moving from passive [...]
Beyond Feminine Endings, A Masochistic Listening Practice
by Hannah Waterman
The crown jewel of the musical canon, Beethoven’s Ninth (with its spectacular “Ode to Joy” finale) is so apparently overburdened with meaning that Slavoj Žižek (2007) describes it as [...]
The Indifferent Astrologer and the Worrying Aunt in the Face of a Rumored Earthquake
by Kam Tou Pang
The anthropological scholarship on rumors tends to focus on their role as emergent and propulsive in times of political and social disturbance, with the potential to be instrumentalized to perpetuate [...]
Depicting the Uncanny: The Environmental Landscapes of Taiwanese artist Zheng Chong-xiao
by Elisa Di Piero
Zheng Chong-xiao 鄭崇孝 is a Taiwanese painter born in Taipei in 1988 whose artistic practice includes the use of the imagery of traditional Chinese landscape painting (or shanshuihua 山水畫) [...]
