Essays

Find a collection of our long-form essays on anthropological theory and ethnography below.

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Kathrin Eitel

“Waste Fantasies: Challenging Prevailing Notions of Waste, or How to Reclaim Political Land”

Elena Burgos Martinez

“Theoretical Dancing, Liquidity and Positioning: (Re) Institutionalising ‘Nature’”

Martin Demant Frederiksen

“Nothingness as Ethnographic Theory”

Émir Mahieddin

“Back to Liberation Anthropology: The Politics of Ethnographic Theory”

Shaila Seshia Galvin

“The Lives of Signs and Signs of Lives: On Sensing Puzzlement”

Theodoros Kyriakides

“Ethnographic theory in catastrophic times”

Noel B. Salazar

“Ethnographic theory: A product of observation, reflection … and travel”

Susana de Matos Viegas

“Can ethnographic theory incorporate history?“

Smita Lahiri

“On Nonrecognition and Feminist Epistemology: Doing Ethnographic Theory with Mary Steedly”

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João de Pina-Cabral

“What is Ethnographic Theory? A response to EASA NET”