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) [...]
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 [...]
Walking in the woods in Željezara neighborhood in Sisak on a windy October afternoon in 2020. Photo by author. Early memories and first embroideries I met Aicha [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic and the case of compulsory cremations was illustrative of how pandemic mediated scapegoating emerged in the context of post-war, post-2019 Sri Lanka. While a largely global [...]
For us here, nothing has changed! Elsewhere, governments are talking about new health regulations and vaccines. But here, it’s always risky and difficult to move and travel! We are [...]
COVID-19 has engulfed the globe since March 2020, but its impact has varied across nationality, gender, religion, race, and class lines. People living in violent geographical spaces faced a [...]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole world stared disease and death in the face. Not everyone was impacted equally, however. While the virus emphasized the vulnerability of each human [...]
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 opinions [...]
Anthropologists have turned toward care in recent years with the hope that it might lead to a better understanding of the moral dynamics of contemporary social life (e.g. Mol [...]
In the three years that I have been a mother in the United States, I have observed two sorts of reactions to toddlers hugging. The first and more common [...]
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