In Sevdalinka, a singer from Serbia evokes estrangement from the present and apprehension about the future in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). [1] This song also contains a rare passage [...]
“I fear the future,” Christina tells me as we walk through the bustling streets of the Monday market in late 2017. “Years ago, I could not wait to escape this [...]
The ruins of global financial collapse, millions displaced by armed conflict, the resurgence of right-wing populism, and imminent ecological disaster. The future is emphatically at the heart of anthropological critique. [...]
AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition. Lahore is an ancient city. Lahore is a megacity. Though I can think of [...]
by Angelique Haugerud Writing advice abounds. As an academic author and as former editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals (American Ethnologist and Africa Today), I enjoy talking with authors about how they write. We are all [...]
In a quiet corner of a park in Jeppestown, an area just east of Johannesburg’s city center, fafi players gather to collect their bags. Fafi, also written as fah-fee or known as umchina, the isiZulu [...]
Photo taken at Southern California rally in response to the rescission of DACA on September 5, 2017. On February 13, 2018, in a case known as Batalla Vidal [...]
by Alison Cool AES is pleased to launch a new feature: interviews celebrating the 25th anniversary of a major article in American Ethnologist. Alison Cool, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of [...]
by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn The power of writing for a non-academic audience first hit me when I was quoted in the New York Times. Four short words of mine—“the guy’s a [...]
by Bryan Dougan Bryan Dougan, AES editorial intern and graduate student at the University of North Carolina, interviews Jon Bialecki, honorary fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at [...]
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