Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to…
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on the…
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The field site is the retail showrooms of a fast-expanding organized retail company selling budget eyewear products across…
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on a digital ethnography on the imageboard platform 4chan/pol, this article…
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research…
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Borrowing from scholarship on emotional labor,…
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Matrilineal practices constitute an important aspect of the social organization among the Minangkabau…
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is an ethnographic study of a sakan shababiyy––a non-familial domestic…
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States Ethnography, Ahead of Print. By comparing changes in New Year’s celebrations among Hmong in…
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper adds to the limited number of studies about physical autonomy and…
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Many ethnographers had to reconceptualize or withdraw from their fieldwork due to COVID-19.…
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The immersive ethnographic tradition has strong potential to contribute…
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography,…
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on community responses to residential toxic exposure in eastern Sandusky County, Ohio, where 35 children were…
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is famous for…
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In Uttar Pradesh, many middle-class Muslims increasingly view local and transnational religious giving…
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on the transnational giving practices of Kammas (a…
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens Ethnography, Ahead of Print. What is the role of transnational non-state philanthropic actors in the Kuwaiti humanitarian mission abroad?…
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Front-line workers, or street-level bureaucrats, who interact directly with clients, have significant discretion…
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is a reflexive critique from a female Chinese anthropologist who…