Hunting in Northern Cyprus
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was […]
Celebrating Arba’een. Shia in Myanmar
On December 2nd 2015, the Shia community in Myanmar celebrated Arba’een – the fourtieth day after Ashura. I recorded this
‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men
This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair
Afghan Wedding Playlist: Men and women’s sides!
My fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2007 involved a substantial amount of time spent at wedding parties. It was rare to
REDUX: Journeys within and beyond the City – Part 1
“That’ll be $1.09.” I hand over the last two dollars of my stipend in exchange for my favorite kind of
Scenes of Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer
Making Sense of Violence Against Minority Women: Notes on Skepticism, Discomfort & Privilege in Fieldwork
What is it like to do fieldwork within a marginalized social group? Especially when you – the researcher – hail
Luanda Taxi – a fieldwork playlist
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one
Life After Fieldwork: of leaving the field, entering liminality and relocating the mind
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize
Fieldnote One-Shots
Journeys Within and Between the City – Part Two
In the field, anthropologists are often presented with competing narratives, imaginings juxtaposed with reality, and the collision of facts with