2026 AJJ Annual Conference May 23-24th, 2026 Akita University Conference Theme Entanglements and Embodiments: Anthropology, Ethnography and Sensing Japan Location The conference will be held …
“Multimodal anthropology gives a name to something that many of us have actually been doing for long, but maybe as side projects”, says Christine Moderbacher, soon new Professor…
Recently I have been thinking about how I learnt to transition from fieldwork to writing. Like many graduate students, mid-way through my thesis research I found myself with…
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in […] The post Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture,…
By Beth Bento – The day began with the high stakes of a long-awaited interview. After nearly a month in Altamira, Pará, I finally felt more connected to…
By Beth Bento – The day began with the high stakes of a long-awaited interview. After nearly a month in Altamira, Pará, I finally felt more connected to…
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […] The post She braids, I listen appeared…
Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For […] The post Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a…
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to […] The post At the state’s gate: The…
by Emma van der Tak – “I saw that you have written for newspapers before,” Albert remarks as the waitress puts down our coffee. While I did so…
Each day weaves its own tale, and no two days unfold alike in the Mandal Valley. The Mandal Valley is like any central Himalayan valley, rich and teeming…
One of the main strengths of ethnographic methodologies is immersed, long-term research, which enables in-depth learning and a holistic vision of a given issue. Restricted or volatile access…
Abstract: Reviewing the Takhayyul Team’s long journey of ethics approvals by various institutional bodies, this paper questions the ethics of […] The post Ethics without the Ethics: The…
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […] The post Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic…
Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years…
By Anja Hofer – Bojan sits opposite me, playing nervously with his water bottle when he tells me: “Our son, Krastio, was in a bilingual daycare but he…
Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also…
by Isa Prieto – I arrive at Chennai airport at 1 am. As soon as I step outside the airport, the humid air envelops me, and I immediately…
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
Some may remember our entry here with Erik Kielsen about the disastrous early snowfall and freezing event in South Greenland in late 2023. This summer fieldwork in the…
In Refugee Voices, Rob Sharp explores how refugees in the UK use creative media to express themselves and their experiences. Through detailed fieldwork in Cardiff and Tyneside, Sharp’s nuanced…
Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutust…
By Lucas Kuijl – On an icy Monday morning, I found myself on the first ferry to the island of Terschelling. I was researching fisheries in the Netherlands…
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the turn from summer to…