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... Using ethnography from 1987–88 and oral histories collected in 2006–8, the chapter describes Somalia’s civil war through the experiences of three families in Banta from before the arrival of war, through the war, to their flight to Kenya as refugees. The people in Banta’s region were...

... Drawing on the examples of quantum physics (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle) and on Adrie Kusserow’s use of poetry to explore the liminal spaces of refugee lives, this interlude considers uncertainty as a constitutive and inescapable part of the practice of ethnography and as a potential...

...Refugees Using ethnography from 1987–88 and oral histories collected in 2006–8, the chapter describes Somalia’s civil war through the experiences of three families in Banta from before the arrival of war, through the war, to their flight to Kenya as refugees. The people in Banta’s region were...

... for ethnography that “loops,” using ethnographic techniques to discern the discursive risks and gaps of a particular problem domain so that further ethnographic engagement in that domain is responsive and creative, provoking new articulations, attending to emergent realities. Ethnographic findings are thus fed...

..., and a phenomenon that ethnography is ideally suited to understand. Credit is given to Ariella Azoulay for opening up a set of questions that hegemonic photographic theory had foreclosed. Ethnography is the method used to study photographing's “ambivalently determining presence.” The range of ethnographies suggests...

... Using a notion of the digital as one of its master metaphors, a version of the term reliant on Kara Keeling’s discussion of “digital humanism,” this chapter argues that there is something about the nonlinearities defining digitality’s difference that might help us to think about recalibrations...

... The introduction presents the general aim of the book and describes its methodological underpinnings. The chapter also discusses issues of subsistence and persistence amid deep poverty. Studying ways to persist expands the focus beyond material subsistence and alerts us to the endeavors...

... of the autonomous subject in shaping these attitudes. Using a narrative ethnography, this chapter seeks to allow the stories of women political prisoners to be heard in context of a complex constellation of social and political conditions, with their memories and embodied histories intermingled in their way...

... As an expert witness Jonathan Benthall was confronted with a radical impasse of public ethnography. Having studied Islamic charities in the West Bank, he was called to testify in a U.S. court case in which the defendant was accused of using humanitarian assistance for terrorist activities...

... Benthall was confronted with a radical impasse of public ethnography. Having studied Islamic charities in the West Bank, he was called to testify in a U.S. court case in which the defendant was accused of using humanitarian assistance for terrorist activities. Not only was his testimony obsessively...

... of language and materiality and outlines how it will be used to illustrate diversity vis-à-vis neoliberal capitalism, biopolitics, and race. It also links this study to seminal ethnographic explorations of media production. Finally, it elaborates on the ethnographic methodologies, field sites, and modes...

... officials, and the indigenous peoples themselves, expressed the supposed needs and will of the Ayoreo. More specifically a tension arose between two public ethnographies: one, tactical, which used ethnographic authority to impose the paradigm of a traditional society to be defended; the other, reflexive...

... on mutual acknowledgment of the expectations and limits of the collaboration. Yet it would be a mistake to subsume policy ethnography under the category of applied social science and oppose it to critical approaches, as is often assumed. Like the practitioner of martial art, the ethnographer studying...

... consisted in explaining and rehabilitating Anonymous and its members since they aroused a combination of curiosity and suspicion. This investment had double returns: she gained recognition among the hackers, and she used the journalists to transform the image of the activist network. Interestingly...

...Departures<subtitle>Reworlding Queer Anthropology</subtitle> This roundtable of Black queer anthropologists, featuring Lyndon Gill, Marshall Green, Nikki Lane, and Kwame Otu in conversation with Shaka McGlotten, is oriented around several themes: ethnography, art, and activism...

... neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple causes, and that demands for social justice were...

... suffering from a wide range of health conditions and unable to access treatment amid precarious infrastructures raised concerns among public authorities. By contesting, on the basis of their empirical data, the official discourse that discredited those who used this alternate path to access medicines, Biehl...

... of life are possible here? Every state in the United States has a surveillance system in place to identify prenatal substance use exposure; seventeen states consider substance abuse during pregnancy to be child abuse; three consider it grounds for civil commitment, or incarceration. On the blocks...

... This chapter takes up the question of sentient flesh through a consideration of the freedman Tom Windham’s remark “We should have our liberty ’cause . . . us is human flesh.” It discusses the conflict between the subjectivity of negrophilic ethnography and that which is both exposited...