No Country for Anthropologists?
The conference No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Contemporary Middle East, which we co-organized and hosted at the […]
An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular
Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where
Podcast Round up: Best of May
Did you hear the one about the sperm and the consultant? No? How about ‘why did the UFO cross the
The Art of Listening #Keynote by Judith Beyer
In her Keynote “On little and grand narratives in Central Asia” (28 March 2019), Allie Judith Beyer investigates the inter-linkages
Words of Passage
Hilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on
#EVENTS: Cultural Heritage, Ethnographic Storytelling and the Future of the University
Anthropologists are known for being great travel buddies. Take one (or more) with you to Vietnam and Ghana by way
Walking in Young Peng’s Shoes
Fei Xiaotong, the late Chinese anthropologist, believed that the best way to study China was by acquiring “intensive, firsthand knowledge
Guessing, Wandering, Learning
This interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography,
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART II)
Let me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART I)
I’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I