Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into…
Read MoreEthnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into…
Read MoreI never expected that laughter would be part of the solution. I had set out on fieldwork with rather vague notions about the importance…
Read MoreIn 2017, my colleague Philipp Zehmisch and I had to cancel a panel on love and family relationships in ethnographic fieldwork, due to a…
Read MoreLast month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning to set up patrols…
Read MoreModern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the dominant group. Such assimilationist…
Read MoreDisclaimer: Over the last few days, I have had a writing episode. Nothing had come out of my brain for months. I was teaching…
Read MoreLe 4 janvier 2021 English Version Madame la Maire, Si je vous écris aujourd’hui, c’est pour vous faire part de ma tristesse,…
Read MoreThe creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an important addition to the…
Read MoreThe situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for…
Read MoreIndro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s political spectrum. But, following…
Read MoreThe cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B. Joe titled Bleeding Sky,…
Read MoreIn her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development project of the coal…
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