Sieving Data
Bürge Abiral
One November night in 2016, Fatih Altaylı, a famous news anchor in Turkey, hosted three men on his live television program to discuss the country’s agricultural future. One was [...]
Sieving Data
Unemployment Uncertainties: Work, Status, and Measurement Imprecision
Marios Falaris
“Look at us, we are unemployed,” Aijaz[i] told me, as we walk through his village in Indian-occupied Kashmir in April, passing a group of young men sitting on a [...]
Inheriting Data in Long-Term Ecological Studies
Sumin Myung
Wolhasan Forest in South Korea primarily consists of conifer plantations (Larix kaemperi and Pinus koraiensis) and oak-dominated natural forests (Querqus mongolica, Quercus serrata, Quercus variabilis, etc.). It arguably represents [...]
Collecting Jeju 4·3 (Sasam) Records from the US Military Archive
by Youjoung (Yuna) Kim
The National Archives at College Park, Maryland, also known as NARA II, houses a rich repository of materials that encompass US military reports pertaining to World War II prisoners [...]
Power ≠ Knowledge: Governmentality in North Indian Pilgrimage Ledgers
by Kunal Joshi
Figure 1: A scribe attempting to locate an entry in the bahī. Photo by author. Much postcolonial scholarship over the last several decades has focused on the [...]
Barcodes as Little Tools of Medical Knowledge
by Zeynel Gül
Every weekday morning at approximately 8 a.m., a queue of hospital visitors forms in front of the registration desk at the Occupational Diseases Unit of Lokman Hekim Hospital,<sup>1</sup> located [...]
data/Big Data in the field
by Naveeda Khan
Algo-r-(h)-i-(y)-thms, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, Tomás Saraceno's solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash. Collection cover image by Joshua [...]
Professionalizing Anthropology for the Digital Turn
by Matt Artz
On June 1, 2023, I was in Mexico City at the Universidad Iberoamericana to deliver the opening keynote at the 4th Global Business Anthropology Summit (GBAS). Looking out over [...]
Following Fungi’s Lead
An Interview with Michael Hathaway
Interview by Yanping Ni (Princeton University) and Yuanhui Ding (University of Amsterdam) Michael Hathaway recently published his book What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (2022) [...]
Your Sincerely, Reluctant Reviewer 2
Megan Moodie and L. Kaifa Roland
Editors’ note: Though it plays with “advice column” in form, the goal of Yours Sincerely, An Uncertain Anthropologist is not to elicit prescriptive answers nor to develop universal disciplinary principles. The views and [...]
