When Anthropologists Act as Artifacts
This post is the third installment of our thread on the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW), a project that explores migration and mobility by…
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On Art and Activism
It’s EVENTS’ time again!! From England, to The Netherlands, to Portugal, and all the way to Australia with a stop in Houston to celebrate…
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Collaborative music video making in the cityscape of Goma (RDC)
This paper presents a collaborative approach to making music video clips as an ethnographic research tool. The case study is a one-month fieldwork trip…
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How Can Making Movies Do Sheep Any Good?
John Adair and Sol Worth, American anthropologists and filmmakers, found themselves in the sticky situation of answering the above question in 1966. They had…
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Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan
It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city. Hair salons, murals, restaurants,…
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Photographic engagement
In 2014 I started exploring people’s lives in Parisian suburbs (banlieue)[1] through engaged and creative visual practices. Being an independent photographer, I wanted to…
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City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children
In Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make the Egyptian school a…
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Audiovisual research practice in the global era
Time has shortened, space has shrunk, social relations have stretched and information keeps coming as intensive flows. This article explores the role audiovisual media…
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The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology at University of California,…
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Buenos Aires Subway Soundtrack
The 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…
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‘Epitome of feminism’: the rise of the social phenomenon of trendy hijabistas
Feminism is not an immutable and easily-defined concept. It is conditioned by culture, religion, politics, education and other social factors. The secular-humanist approach to…
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Slam that ethnography! – Introduction
Have you ever been in a conference room, listening to one presentation after another, only to realize that they all seemed strangely similar? As…
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