Buses, Metros, Shoes & Confusing Journeys
This week we continue our thread on fieldnotes via four posts that all in their own way elaborate this thread’s […]
That buried secret of ours! non-fiction and fiction on memories of violence, death politics and the economy of silence in post-revolution Iran
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an acclaimed and respected writer in Iran. A post stamp has recently been produced in his honor.
Physical and Metaphorical Journeys through Fieldnotes
This week, we’re sharing some of our recently-acquired fieldnotes with you, dear reader, in addition to two installments from our
REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan
It has been a while since I have last encountered her – I wonder if I will still recognize her.
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
Emergent Conversation: Being Like a State #anthrostate
Today we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review
REDUX: #Fieldwork with children
Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our
Fieldnote One-Shots
Beyond Fieldwork: emotions, facial ‘disfigurement’ and a PhD #Fieldnotes
What does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining
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