Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero
Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Yokozuna Hakuhō, a prominent Sumo wrestler, is a Mongolian-born Japanese national hero. However, he, as other Mongolian wrestlers, presents Sumo with tensions…
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article illustrates the value of reflexive dialogue regarding foundational assumptions about ontologies of culture and cultural…
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This special issue on hand-to-hand sports aims to analyse how collective identities and forms of group and community belonging…
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling Ethnography, Ahead of Print. More than merely a combat sport, Senegalese wrestling combines professional athleticism with cultural traditions, political relations, and religious…
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In contemporary capoeira groups, newcomers are symbolically ‘baptised’ into the community at…
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Denmark’s oldest asylum centre has been in operation in the small…
Building community through hospitality: Indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community
Building community through hospitality: Indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Anthropologists largely draw on the theoretical assumption that the interactional practices underlying hospitality…
Let me take a photo with the Shabaken: Reflections on Ikam among the Bujuur Naga
Let me take a photo with the Shabaken: Reflections on Ikam among the Bujuur Naga Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Feasts of merit were integral to the Bujuur traditional socio-cultural lives.…
Texas wildfire survivors’ narratives and the meaning of everyday objects
Texas wildfire survivors’ narratives and the meaning of everyday objects Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study suggests the importance of focusing on lost objects after disasters and gauging the emotional…
Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia
Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Resistance to nickel mining in Sorowako, Indonesia has existed since the operation started taking land…
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ceuta, Melilla, and the neighboring Moroccan territories can be imagined as testing grounds where different…
Being Breton through wrestling: Traditional gouren as a distinctive Breton activity
Being Breton through wrestling: Traditional gouren as a distinctive Breton activity Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Gouren is a style of wrestling practiced in Brittany, France. It has been “sportised” during…
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Spectatorship is a core element of esports. Short for “electronic sports,” esports encompasses organized, professional competitive…
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article addresses the question of alternative ways to writing ethnography and more specifically,…
(De)constructing Refugee Vulnerability: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Ethnographic Research With Refugee Communities
(De)constructing Refugee Vulnerability: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Ethnographic Research With Refugee Communities Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawn from 18-months of ethnographic research with resettled refugees living in…
RETRACTED: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings
RETRACTED: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
RETRACTION NOTICE: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings
RETRACTION NOTICE: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Emic ethnographic encounters: Researching elderly female household heads’ experience with climate change in rural Zimbabwe
Emic ethnographic encounters: Researching elderly female household heads’ experience with climate change in rural Zimbabwe Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I discuss the experiences of conducting ethnographic research…
Erratum to “More Bread Less Circus”
Erratum to “More Bread Less Circus” Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Innovations in the trauma-informed care (TIC) field have promised…