Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used…
Read MoreFieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used…
Read MoreHave you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon infection (BOTS)? Do you…
Read MoreThe first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter the Olympic stadium, coming…
Read MoreIn February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university….
Read MoreIn a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during the spring 2016 semester….
Read MoreNovember 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was not directly within the…
Read More1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started my ethnographic career in the Pakistani city…
Read MoreOn December 2nd 2015, the Shia community in Myanmar celebrated Arba’een – the fourtieth day after Ashura. I recorded this martyr song around midnight…
Read MoreWhen the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image…
Read MoreWhile Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship…
Read MoreThe tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class ‘subjects.’ Although studies of class are…
Read MoreWhile gender remains a mostly female domain of inquiry, our list of recent publications features not only male authors, but also discusses contemporary masculinities….
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