Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the…
Read MoreI’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the…
Read MoreToday we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We are very…
Read MoreToday we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our archives: Reetta Toivanen on…
Read MoreWhat does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining the desired degree of…
Read MoreAah – it’s almost that time of the year again! Namely the time when many anthropologists sheds their boring ‘everyday’ selves and reconnect with…
Read MoreAnxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for my fieldwork stay in…
Read MoreAs Craig Larkin already noticed in one of his studies, in human events the tension between what is said and what is known often…
Read MoreThere are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than merely punishing individuals who…
Read MoreThe following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the University of Leipzig. English Abstract: The…
Read MoreI first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members of a community-based organization,…
Read MoreToronto, summer 2012, three of us having lunch at an Indian restaurant downtown—me and two young Tibetan friends. We were discussing citizenship and asylum…
Read MoreIs fieldwork a pair of contact lenses or eye surgery – and what are eyes anyway? I was in Lebanon for entirely personal reasons….
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