~ a group blog on a variety of topics related to anthropology, sociology, and ordinary people ~
With the Ethnography.com website’s updated ‘modern’ look and my ‘mysterious’ long-term disappearance from America, you may be wondering about the site’s header photos, and what the heck is going on over here? Maybe call this ‘flash ethnography’ mixed with ethnographic photography. Here are five short stories…
^ THIS IS THE CHURCH COURTYARD at the ethnographer’s primary Fulbright research site. It is an important Pentecostal church in town that is also a small community.…
Notes From the Liquor Store…
Thought I was finished working here.
But I remembered, I do like the liquor store.
Been coming in and chatting with Norm at night. He’s helping with my studies in Arabic philosophy. So I thought I’d give him a night off so he can run errands and cook dinner for his family. Norm says he has no knowledge of Arabic philosophy, but over time, he has showed me a little– books, poetry, music, history. …