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Les fogueres de Sant Joan dins i fora muralla. Barcelona,1758-1848

Foguera de Sant Joan segons un gravat del segle XIX, recollit per Joan Amades al seu Costumari Consideracions per Stefano Portelli enviades l’agost …

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness and disability in the field

This reflective essay examines the author’s experience conducting fieldwork while managing chronic illness and disability. The post Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Sam Streuli

Towards a compassionate turn

This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By The New Ethnographer

Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families

In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families. The post Through the looking glass: learning…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Nieves Galera Suárez

The Murky World of ‘Extremism’ Research

Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and person…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Richard McNeil-Wilson

The ethnographer’s body is gendered

Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site o…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Anya Evans

The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces

This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable. The post The eth…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Anonymous

Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field?

Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnan…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Emmanuelle Roth

Orientalized Gender and the Field

Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts r…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Salma Moustafa Khalil

Gender and danger: the ‘good girl persona’ in institutional fieldwork

This post reflects on contemporary challenges in ethnographic research, foregrounding the everyday ethical, emotional, and institutional pressures that shape fieldwork practice. The post Gender and da…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Inés Bolaños Somoano

Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork

Hareem Khan examines the fragility and fluidity of friendships formed during ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on trust, distrust, and rupture as constitutive elements of research relationships. The po…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Hareem Khan

Online and offline middlemen: contrasting ways of creating trust in the pharmaceutical markets of north India

In many parts of the world, there is an increasing discomfort with middlemen in the healthcare industry (Pearl, 2024). They are characterized as greedy, profit seekers and vilified…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Alexandra Epshtein

Time, Virtuality, and the Digital Sacred

In Season 2 of the show Ramy, two Muslim American men perform umrah (the minor pilgrimage to Mecca) while sitting in an Atlantic City hotel room. Ramy is…

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Fatima Tariq

「Sunday sacaries!」・ I don’t get to do many (socio-)linguistics posts, and this one is not about Japanese or JSL, but my Sociolinguistics students have been inspiring me this semester…

From The New York Times: The World, September 17, 2026. For more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/merriam-webster-new-words-looksmaxxing-yacht-rock.html Please don’t get the Silver Week …

  • Post date 18th September 2026
  • Post author By Unknown

Teaching “Anthropology for Liberation” in 2025 with “The Good Ancestor Game” by Tina Ngata and Tāwhana Chadwick

Playing this game in class was the highlight of my 2025 teaching year.

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By lorenagibson

Interview on Sea Change Radio

You can hear me talk about my new book After the Flush with Alex Wise from Sea Change radio here.

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By nckawa

بازنمایی اسطوره ایرانی توسط جاسوس آمریکایی؛ نقد فیلم لو

فیلم «لو (Lou) » فیلمی در ژانر هیجان انگیز و اکشن و محصول سال ۲۰۲۲ است که توسط شبکه نتفلیکس ساخته شده و آنا فورستر (Anna Foerster) کارگردانی…

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By صالحه خدادادی

در سایه‌ی کشتار در سیریک؛ جستاری در باب عروسی و ماشینِ کشتن

اول سپتامبر در کوهستک شهر ساحلی کوچکی نزدیک سیریک در هرمزگان سقف پایین آمد. مهماتی خورد به خانه‌ای که در آن عروسیِ دخترِ یک ماهیگیر برپا بود. رسانه‌های…

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By مریم پیردهقان

گفت‌وگو با ناصر فکوهی: نقدی بر نهاد مدرسه و جایگاه آن در جامعۀ ایران

گفت‌وگو کننده: زهره دودانگه از اینکه دعوت نشریۀ میدان فرهنگ را برای مصاحبه پذیرفتید از شما سپاسگزاریم. در سال‌های اخیر شاهد افول جایگاه و منزلت مدرسه در جامعه…

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By ناصر فکوهی

Beyond AI? Reflections on the Ethics of Studentship and Relational Education

Much of the contemporary conversation about higher education has become heavily focused on the moral economy of artificial intelligence. Universities are rewriting assessment policies, introducing AI …

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By Estella Carpi

Sandra Rozental, “The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft” (Duke UP, 2026)

Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony?…

  • Post date 17th September 2026
  • Post author By New Books Network

Courageous Ethnography: Anand Pandian Explores the Dark Underside of the American Experiment

November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump…

  • Post date 16th September 2026
  • Post author By Alma Gottlieb

Anti-colonial Accuracy and Rigour

Table of Contents By Layla El-Dakhakhni, with editing by Erdanya Anderson What is Accuracy? What is Rigour? Science requires accuracy and rigour, but how are these qualities built?…

  • Post date 16th September 2026
  • Post author By Erdanya Anderson

Beyond Delivering Food: Networks, Risk, and the Hidden Infrastructure of Gig Work

I was picking up an order on 67th st and Columbus Ave when I saw the guy get on my bike and start to ride away. I got…

  • Post date 16th September 2026
  • Post author By Ambar Reyes
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