The Digital Sound of Southeast Asian Islam
Bart Barendregt
As I watch your eyes There is cloud of yesterday’s grief and wounds, No need to mourn As God will change it for happiness, Start the day With bright [...]
The Digital Sound of Southeast Asian Islam
Circulating Modesty The Gendered Afterlives of Networked Images
Carla Jones
"Sampai ke mana?" Or "How far could it go?" Imagining how far her self-portraits might circulate online, 30-year old Ani, a college graduate and entrepreneur in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, mused about the [...]
The Revival of Riya’ Displaying Muslim Piety Online in Indonesia
Fatimah Husein
“When we were helping to collect donations through Merapi Care after the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010 we realized that the money was getting short. My arisan friends [...]
Sufi Sociality in Social Media
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
2017 marks the eighth anniversary of habiblutf.net, the official website of Indonesia’s most well-known contemporary Sufi (Islamic mysticism) master, Habib Luthfi bin Yahya (b. 1947). A native of Pekalongan, Central Java, [...]
Introduction Piety, Celebrity, Sociality
Carla Jones and Martin Slama
Carla Jones (University of Colorado Boulder) and Martin Slama (Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) Popular uses of smartphones at an Islamic college in Indonesia. (Photograph by Martin [...]
Confronting the present Migration in Sidney Mintz’s journal for The People of Puerto Rico
Ismael García-Colón
Puerto Rican workers harvesting sugarcane circa 1946. (Jack Delano / Courtesy of the Office of Information for Puerto Rico, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios [...]
Sidney Mintz and His Legacy Forum Introduction
Kevin A. Yelvington
READ ARTICLE In a professional career spanning over six decades, Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) had an immense influence on anthropology, history, Caribbean studies, food studies, and the interdisciplinary study of [...]
Hugh Gusterson | A conversation on his latest book “Drone: Remote Control Warfare”
AES editorial intern and University of Colorado PhD student Drew Zackary interviews Hugh Gusterson about his latest book. The conversation moves from discussions on polemics in anthropology, war crimes and [...]
“It’s a Feeling, Not a Theory”: A Reflection on Anthropology, Empathy, and Consent at Standing Rock
Tara Joly
(Photo: David Leins) “Anthropologists Against Pipelines.” This was part of the text of a flyer water protectors from the movement at Standing Rock distributed before a teach-in [...]
Lila Abu-Lughod | Ten questions about anthropology, feminism, Middle East politics, and publics
Sindre Bangstad (KIFO, the Institute for Church, Religion, and Worldview Research, Oslo) interviews Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University) On the occasion of the publication of Columbia University anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod’s article, [...]
