This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.
What do we owe the people who hand us their stories?
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair
Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to
I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the long journey of ethics that I, as the PI
‘We have to sit with the structural inequality of our work, and not try to dance around the obligation of
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork.
