On the 12th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had …
Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers …
Care worker Annika announces that she does not want to go to Mr Moran. “He always complains.” “I’ll go”, says her colleague …
The question of how Willem was coping, alone in the big house, had come to concern many of those surrounding him. Over …
The sun wakes her up. But Mrs Wijngaard keeps her eyes closed. She is 90 years old and sits quietly in her …
For my doctoral research, I interviewed family members living with a loved one with early-onset dementia, a diagnosis that one receives under …
Babe, my grandpa, was born on the kitchen tiles of a small Seattle home. His dad, whose own grandpa had run a …
During fieldwork on dementia care in a nursing home, I was struck by the complex and layered orderings of space, time and …
During my first visit to Ghana in 1998, I was involved in a research project that looked at possible co-operations between healers …
Attending to what makes up ‘the everyday’ has long been a challenge for scholars in the social sciences. [1] Researchers from different disciplines …
It is a classic observation of anthropologists that we seek to document the everyday activities of people within various cultural contexts in …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
“For two days, my WeChat news feeds has been awash with all kinds of articles and images about the Tianjin blast. But …
Chinese female migrant workers working in a local reflective vest workshop. Photo by Xinyuan Wang A question always strikes me as I …