Allegra CALLS for #Fieldnotes!
Aah – it’s almost that time of the year again! Namely the time when many anthropologists sheds their boring ‘everyday’ […]
My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork
Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for
Dealing with reality and falsehood in the field
As Craig Larkin already noticed in one of his studies, in human events the tension between what is said and
Judicial means and political ends: Transitional justice and political trials
There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than
Die Geburt der Ethnologie aus dem Geist der Tragödie
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the University of
City of Fear: Everyday experience of insecurity in Lyari (Karachi)
I first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members
“I love polyandry, yo”: Tibetan refugee citizenship and the politics of culture
Toronto, summer 2012, three of us having lunch at an Indian restaurant downtown—me and two young Tibetan friends. We were
Never Naked Eyes
Is fieldwork a pair of contact lenses or eye surgery – and what are eyes anyway? I was in Lebanon
Mental Welfare in The Field: A neglected subject?
By Marcus Jordan The time is 7 in the morning, and it is yet another long day of my fieldwork.
Violence, Voting and the Monopolization of Power
The following is based on edited excerpts from the introduction of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political