This essay explores the Danish concept of hygge, commonly glossed as “coziness,” as a structure of feeling attuned to particular qualities of light. It draws from an ethn [...]

Fast-food is rapidly being digitized. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the food-service industry quickly advanced digital infrastructures of self-service kiosks, QR codes, c [...]

Cervical cancer is the fourth-most frequent cancer suffered by women worldwide, but relatively few women grow sick with or die from invasive cervical cancer in wealthy in [...]

Moot courts are simulation exercises where law students argue fictional cases before panels of judges, a pedagogical format that has gained global prominence in legal edu [...]

Since the 1990s, the island city state of Singapore has been experiencing a “Renaissance” of art and screened media production after decades of a relative dearth of local [...]

Since the early 2000s, biocultural diversity conservation has emerged as a response to environmental challenges, extending beyond the preservation of ecosystems to includ [...]

Since the early 2000s, the rise of Bhojpuri screen media – films, songs, music videos, and more recently, digital media artefacts like short fiction videos – has imparted [...]

This dissertation explores the modern state’s role in shaping the collective life of Turkish Muslim women under conditions of polarization. Rather than framing state invo [...]

What becomes of the imaginary of the good life when the conditions that have made it possible—and aspirational—are imperiled? To answer this question, this dissertation e [...]

This dissertation explores how viewing kinship as a dynamic process rather than a fixed structure can provide a potent theoretical shift capable of changing the narrative [...]

This dissertation ethnographically studies how labouring subjects and politics are being constituted under neoliberal Hindutva in peri-urban communist movement spaces in [...]

In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLL [...]

This project seeks to analyze regional Votadini hillfort re-settlement in the Roman Iron Age/Romano-British Period in Northumberland, UK, north of Hadrian’s Wall. Archaeo [...]

When the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty in 1271, they inherited not only the vast territory of a fragmented China but also the structural challenge of ruling it. Th [...]

One of the most polarizing statements in today’s public discourse is “science isn’t real.” To support this claim, many will cite that, in informal situations, scientists [...]

This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off-grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the br [...]

For all of its protean and ephemeral qualities, air exerts a remarkably muscular influence on urban form and contemporary life in China. In recent years, as the breakneck [...]

In the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, new fracking technologies are stirring up lands, chemicals, and relations that concentrate attention in the surround. [...]

Moving animals is an ethnography of the entangled encounters and after empire strategies that drive the conservation of Bahamian animals in the first decades of the tw [...]

The pre-Columbian World Heritage site of Tiwanaku (AD 600–1100) located in highland altiplano Bolivia is shown to have a unique urban water supply system with many advanc [...]

"'Work Makes Free': The Hidden Cultural Meaning of the Holocaust" uses the methods of symbolic anthropological analysis in an attempt to explain what previously has be [...]

This review sketches a linguistic anthropology of images. While linguistic anthropology has not historically focalized images as a central theoretical object of concern, [...]

In contemporary Singaporean sociopolitical discourse, comparisons with the West—particularly the USA and the UK—have become pervasive across a wide range of critical soci [...]

This discussion with Steven Feld occurred online on May 4, 2020 for around two-and-a-half hours. It covers a wide range of topics: Feld’s training and background; the rel [...]

Science on the Range uses bats and their scientists to provide a historical and ecological account of both the range and Texas’ sovereignty as a settler colonial state. T [...]