A “child of Asia”.
I have wrapped up my last meeting of the day. I skip the metro to take a long, slow walk back to my hotel. I walk past several eateries. Suddenly,…
Category: Everyday ethnographies
Six first impressions of the US.
Phoenix is basically Western Australia with cacti. – As punishment for being Internet researchers we now have to dine in the desert. It’s like academic Survivor. – These are so…
This is my grandmother.
This is my grandmother admiring a photograph of her wedding portrait on my iPhone. “Hey! How do you have this? There’s only one copy! It’s hanging in Uncle James’ house…
Politics, everyday life, and habitus.
After having spent ten days closely following political rallies and campaigns while tracking social media discourse out of academic interest, I took to the polls on Friday morning to cast…
Political rallies and the tactility of collective effervescence.
I’m in the stands at a sports stadium watching a political rally. ~60yo man on my left is clipping his toe nails. ~30yo lady on my diagonal left is Instagramming.…
The day before thesis submission.
I am submitting my thesis tomorrow. For all the hype over submitting, thesis printing is extremely underwhelming. To you, it’s the end of an era. To the printers, you are…
Academic precarity and transient intimacies in 28 Tweets.
A series of brainfarts about the most memorable ten-minute cab ride in the history of forever: I am an anthropologist at a social media conference, literally half the globe away…
