The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Sociological writings on panhandling have depicted protracted donor relationships as one of panhandlers’ surest paths to…
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how race, gender, and generation influence ethnographers’ ethical decision-making in the field. We…
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the intricate relationships between three…
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the current article, I reflect on data…
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article is an autoethnographic account written by three Italian…
Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte
Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through an autoethnographic account that interweaves academic observations, my…
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers) Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Feminist methodological interventions have advanced our understanding of reflexivities, leading us to…
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment Ethnography, Ahead of Print. During the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), Beirut’s built environment was taken over by militias and…
Action and seduction
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A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images Go to Source
Objects and images: A medievalist’s response to Carlos Fausto’s Art effects
Objects and images: A medievalist’s response to Carlos Fausto’s Art effects Go to Source
The ruses of Amerindian art: A reply
The ruses of Amerindian art: A reply Go to Source
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico: Bridging Indigenous knowledge and archaeology
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico: Bridging Indigenous knowledge and archaeology This article examines the possible roles of exceptionally preserved clay…
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology This article explores a Mesoamerican topology based on the figure of the fold. It argues that the operation of…
Rawa-Nore gifting
Rawa-Nore gifting This article comprises a rethinking of Mauss’s The gift, reciprocity, and exchange theory in anthropology, using theories of chaos and complexity to make sense of the author’s ethnographic data…
But is it art?
But is it art? Go to Source
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art Go to Source
Meeting grounds: Art and anthropology in the Everglades
Meeting grounds: Art and anthropology in the Everglades This article considers issues raised while working at the intersection of anthropology and visual art in Everglades National Park and during the…
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research I examine my dual role as artist and ethnographer in the creation of artworks including mixed-media paintings and installations. Drawing from…
The performative photograph: A poietic approach to visual ethnography in a French banlieue
The performative photograph: A poietic approach to visual ethnography in a French banlieue By reexamining the empirical relationship between ethnography and photography, this article explores the phenomenology of photographic experiences…