Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of #fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison….
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Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison….
Read MoreThe city rattles, rustles and roars unremittingly. In Buenos Aires you hear the constant medley of restless mechanical noises and the humming of millions of lives. The central pitch of this soundscape…
Read MoreMy forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European…
Read MoreA cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue…
Read MoreOne Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake…
Read MoreThe person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human contact. But to what…
Read MoreEmpowering the Next Generation of Digital, Public Anthropologists In Yorkshire, England with a backdrop of bleating sheep and patchwork fields, archaeologists-in-training investigate, explore, and…
Read MoreMost objects in our households have a purpose. They clothe, seat, feed or transport us. Some object do extra duty; they communicate something about…
Read MoreI love my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. I’m sure you’ve heard about Baltimore lately, with its sagging school system, serving a mainly African-American population;…
Read MoreThe notorious C-Squat has become a kind of “house society” in which people are tied together by their connection to shared property and communal…
Read MoreAs Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot…
Read MoreAntonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
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