I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific
research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in …

What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this
central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence …

What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it
contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on …

Infrastructures have proven to be useful focal points for understanding social phenomena.
The projects of concern in this literature are often considered complete or, if not, their …

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human
subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming …

In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican
migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a …

Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like
cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and …

Through a story that connects the rhizomatic trajectories of abandonment in Mathare,
Nairobi, I show how the continuities of an imperial planning become territorialized in a water …

The well-known divergence between what policy and protocol look like on paper, and what
happens in the actual practice of daily life remains a central challenge in health services …

The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations
engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa …