The Kiss of Death
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or…
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Call for reviews: Anthropology of Death and Mourning
The global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow citizens have reacted and…
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Open Call: #AnthroEducate!
Imagine dozens of tables in a huge hall, with 12-15 children sitting at each. They negotiate with each other, squabble, and make up. They…
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Turkish Cemeteries for the “Unknown”
I first heard about the Cemetery for the Unknown from a friend, Ceyda, while returning from the funeral of her friend, Sibel. Sibel was…
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Paradoxes of child statelessness in Sabah
Since 2012, I have been researching and writing about the difficult situation faced by the children of Filipino and Indonesian refugees and migrants living…
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Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
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Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth in Africa….
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A Year of Two Elections
Victor flew into the tackle, blocking the opponent’s shot at goal. Shouts of praise went up from the fans and substitutes standing on the…
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Cultivating Childhood
Samira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis (long black overdress) and…
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A Youth Center Struggles With Israeli Occupation
A staff member at Lajee Center, a youth organization in Aida Refugee Camp in the Israeli occupied West Bank, went “live” on Facebook on…
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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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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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