Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In ethnographic research and analysis, reflexivity is vital to achieving constant coordination between field and concept work. However,…
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Anthropologists see life-cycle rituals as a significant way to understand gender roles and…
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic research is a thoroughly material matter, but the involvement of material things in performing ethnographic methods is…
“Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing
“Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. We analyze the relations between ethnographic data and theory through an examination of materiality…
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In 2000, one of Pakistan’s largest social movements began: a tenant struggle for land rights on the…
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…