Quaran-Teens 2020: Reflections on Teaching Auto-Ethnography to Quaran-Teens 2020
By Dr. Rebecca Hodges Photo by the author of her classroom in March 2020, emptied by coronavirus quarantine. When the coronavirus epidemic …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Changes Because of Quarantine
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Like talking to a door: Thoughts on the interactional and semiotic dynamics of an office door
This post is Part 2 in a short series covering some of my thoughts on a recent story about University of Alberta …
(E)thnographic Correspondence and Collaborative Improvisation
by Joelle Powe, Thea McRae, Christina Jones and Laith A. Ayogu. Screenshots from virtual meetings with authors on Google Hangouts and Zoom, taken …
Academic labour and academic freedom: What does it mean to be ‘fired’?
While The-Author-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named has been the most prominent example of a public figure going all-in on a so-called “gender critical” argument that works …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Cultural Impact on Health
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
More than arm’s length: reimagining rituals in a technologically mediated pandemic-centric era
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Dr. Caitlin E. McDonald, a digital anthropologist at Leading Edge Forum, a technology industry research organization, and a …
Home, Work, Homework, and Fieldwork
by Yukun Zeng (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) China was the first country hit by COVID-19. Due to the government-enforced …
The Social Meanings of Food in a COVID-19 World
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Rituparna Patgiri, a doctoral student in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Classification During Quarantine
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Disaster, Dystopia, and Disphony
by Pranathi Diwakar (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) My last day of “fieldwork” was on March 14th, 2020. A chart-topping …
Putting down our “lenses”
Nikkormat and 50mm lens. Photo by Ryan Anderson 2020. Years ago I read an article about a photographer. I don’t actually remember …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Quarantined Bodies: Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Materiality and Production in Pandemic: A High School Perspective
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Connecting through the Layered Traumas of Fieldwork
By CD Green (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) This billboard is part of an ad campaign that began just after …
Quaran-Teens 2020: Familial Belonging in Quarantine: Balancing Personal and Family Identities at Home
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
No Longer a Field
by Rachel Howard (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) An intersection at the author’s fieldsite. Image by the author. Suspending my …
Quaran-Teen 2020: Our Constantly Evolving Society
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Video conferencing and the limits of representability
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Christian Elliott, an undergraduate senior majoring in cultural anthropology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Video conferencing …
Fieldwork and the Nation Under Threat: Rethinking Critique, Recentering Relationships
by Josh Babcock CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviews Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a segment titled, “What the U.S. can learn …
Quaran-Teens 2020: How Communication Has Changed through Quarantine
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams …
Listen to Black Women…please?
I woke up at 11:01 this morning. I was too tired and too sad to go on a long walk with my …
Walking becomes political during the pandemic
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bicram Rijal, PhD. Candidate in Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, …
What 9/11 Taught Me about COVID-19
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger David Vine, Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: …