Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Digital audio technologies have expanded the methodological possibilities for anthropological research. This article explores some of the implications of…
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the following article, I explore how tarot card readers (and other…
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Migration to the Gulf Countries of the United Arab…
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article theorizes the fieldwork experiences that I gained while…
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Caught in the context of a highly competitive…
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on ethnographic research between 2016 and 2018, this article examines the role…
“We Offer Nuffle a Sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultual Viability
“We Offer Nuffle a Sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultual Viability Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This…
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper discusses the decline of traditional pottery making in rural southwestern…
The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective
The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The battle jacket—a sleeveless denim jacket customized with band patches—is a staple item…
“We Offer Nuffle S sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultural Viability
“We Offer Nuffle S sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultural Viability Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This…
Institutional Ethnography and the Materiality of Affect: Affective Circuits as Indicators of Other Possibilities
Institutional Ethnography and the Materiality of Affect: Affective Circuits as Indicators of Other Possibilities Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 691-709, October 2020. Many studies have utilized…
Glocalizing Women’s Empowerment: Feminist Contestation and NGO Activism in Iran
Glocalizing Women’s Empowerment: Feminist Contestation and NGO Activism in Iran Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through an ethnographic study of a women’s empowerment program in Tehran, and in-depth…
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on a shared ethnographic experience centered…
A Taiwan knowledge keeper of indigenous Bunun – An ethnographic historical narrative of Laipunuk (內本鹿), southern mountain range
A Taiwan knowledge keeper of indigenous Bunun – An ethnographic historical narrative of Laipunuk (內本鹿), southern mountain range Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper offers an ethnographic life history account…
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This contemporary feminist ethnography draws on in-depth ethnographically-anchored lifestory interviews with loved…
“How Come This Man Is Homeless?” An Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Work among Volunteers in a Diner Serving to the Homeless
“How Come This Man Is Homeless?” An Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Work among Volunteers in a Diner Serving to the Homeless Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this…
Social Media Representations of Law Enforcement within Four Diverse Chicago Neighborhoods
Social Media Representations of Law Enforcement within Four Diverse Chicago Neighborhoods Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The perception of excessive use of force by law enforcement towards minorities…
Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’
Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper focuses on two…
To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants
To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article analyses the unprecedented decision taken by the Israeli…
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This essay considers kinship in the contexts of movement and migration.…