K’aissina! Father, Son, Taboos: Life-Lessons from Ethiopia
The Kara of southern Ethiopia are a small population of horti-pastoralists among whom I have worked since 2003. Over the years, I collected in…
Read MoreThe Kara of southern Ethiopia are a small population of horti-pastoralists among whom I have worked since 2003. Over the years, I collected in…
Read MoreAlmost exactly four years ago I arrived at Geneva airport – with my two sons then aged 1 and 4. We had set on…
Read MoreCan one be an academic and a mother? Of course. Of course you can, and yet, this question is a common one. It is…
Read MoreWhen I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are ever going…
Read MoreI take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about….
Read MoreI am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They…
Read MoreAbout a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White Paper on implementing ambitious…
Read MoreIt’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night he has to go…
Read MoreI have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
Read MoreOn a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was trying to catch the…
Read MoreWhen the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image…
Read MoreThe theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and Rights network…
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