Money from Nothing, Part 1 of 2
This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. […]
Reviews Symposium
Liminality, Biomedicine, and the Law – A symposium supported by the wellcome trust
Biomedicine and the life sciences continue to rearrange the relationship between culture and biology, problematizing what it means to be
Virtual Museum
AVMOFA: University Bucket
Universities have a long history. Buckets even longer. Nevertheless, perhaps not many times in the past have universities and buckets
Sing the Rage. Listening to Anger after Mass Violence
Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation
AVMOFA: UNEXPECTED GIFTS AS ANALYTICAL TOOLS
It is the early(ish) stages of my fieldwork among Hindus from Suriname living in the Netherlands. I am reluctantly attending
Physical and Metaphorical Journeys through Fieldnotes
This week, we’re sharing some of our recently-acquired fieldnotes with you, dear reader, in addition to two installments from our
Reviews
Rights and Responsibilities: Anonymous Peer Review
Anonymous peer review has the power to transform. It can turn trust into suspicion; it can be uplifting or leave
REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan
It has been a while since I have last encountered her – I wonder if I will still recognize her.
Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite
Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the