92-year old Milja lives in a village in the Latvian-Russian borderlands that emerged in the middle of the 19th century next to a railway station on the St. Petersburg-Warsaw line. [...]
The anthropology of time has achieved at least three things. Empirically, it explored the many ways humans relate to time and all things temporal. Theoretically, it embedded the analyses of [...]
“We have to look towards the future of our people, of our community. We can’t just sit back and let others say what we can be in the world. I [...]
At the beginning of the song, a stern impersonal voice announces: “May I have your attention, please? The future that you anticipated has been cancelled. Please remain seated and wait [...]
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 [...]
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