Reading the Signs: Dust, Smoke, and #Displacement in Athens
‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966: 47) Thus we may…
Author: Heath Cabot
Conference Report: An American at the German Anthropological Association
My introduction to the German Anthropological Association was from the podium of the Opening Plenary Panel in the Audimax of the Freie Universität Berlin, looking out at what…
Afghan Gender Policies & Humanitarian Carnival – Julie Billaud with Heath Cabot #REDUX
Julie Billaud‘s first monograph, entitled « Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan», came out in 2015 with the University of Pennsylvania Press, in its series The Ethnography…
Camaraderie in the Face of Greek Austerity
At a pharmacy in Vyronas, Greece, Dimitris (left) provides a referral for medical care while Soula (top center) helps fill prescriptions. All services at this and other community-based…
Crisis and Continuity: A Critical Look at the “European Refugee Crisis”
Writing ethnography in sites and times of “crisis” is a challenge that more and more anthropologists are dealing with, as this historical moment is punctuated with multiple crisis…
Life Goes On. Banalities and Sociabilities of Crisis Greece
“Grecia, prove di un’economia di guerra”. (Corriere della Sera, June 30, 2015) “The Real Story Behind Greece’s Debt Crisis,” MSNBC with Chris Hayes (6/30, 2015) “The decision to…