So many thoughts lined up in my head as I looked for the vaccination room. I was sweating. The metallic chairs in the hospital’s hallways reflected a cold light [...]
A ruined building, a runner muses, as he makes his way along the yet-to-be-gentrified quarter opposite Durban, South Africa’s new cruise ship terminal. Morning light streams through the cracks [...]
Kedem (Berman’s son) and Sylvia (Kati’s daughter), both one year old, sitting next to each other in two blue chairs. Photo by author. No one wanted to [...]
Off-grid distributed solar power generation in rural Laos, with the village pillar establishing the spiritual center of the village space. The photograph shows horizontally-arrayed solar panels in a [...]
Li and her mother in Li’s bedroom. Photo by author. We met in Wuhan in 2015. Li was a recent university graduate who worked for Foxconn factory [...]
Tea Plucker and Seedling Tea Bush at the Ceylon Tea Museum. Photo by author. I took this photo during the last week of 2008. I had begun [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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