Photo by Yang Yu on Unsplash. Collection cover photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. Anthropologists pride themselves on the intimacy of the ethnographic method. To family, friends, and [...]
A ficus albipila (also known as an “abbey tree:) in Thamluang Khunnam Nangnon National Park, Mae Sai, Thailand. Photo by author. Humanness is no longer a noun. Being human [...]
Leading up to the 50th birthday of American Ethnologist, AES editorial interns Ipsita Dey and Alexandra Dantzer have a conversation with the current editors of the journal, Susanna Trnka, [...]
What do anthropologists mean when we talk about the present? In 2024 we may think we know. Even as we have turned to haunting pasts and menacing futures, our methodological [...]
We enter the kumina circle seeking fellowship, communication, and guidance, shuffling counter-clockwise to the heartbeat and tack-a-tack rhythm of the drums toward a transcendence of Western logics of personhood and [...]
In anthropology, recent debates on precarity have helped theorize a diversity of human experiences, highlighting their nuances and complexities. However, recent discussions have often tended to foreground the novelty of [...]
Every Wednesday during my first winter in Jerusalem, I met with Umm Atef, Umm Abed, and Umm Ali to visit the places of water in the village of Silwan, their [...]
“Revolutions are consummately about time” (Scott 2014, 15); and, as Hannah Arendt argued—they are “the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of a beginning” [...]
When I wrote this sentence, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, had just had his fingerprints taken. The pundits on the news channels are both salivating at [...]
How can revolution have a consequential presence without being recast as the prequel to—or a break from—the liberal democratic present? In post-revolutionary Tunisia, the democratic present became a key site [...]
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