Author Archives: Mandy Muise

Hi All! I wasn’t sure what chapters we were supposed to read, so I am writing this post about the introduction of Tea and Solidarity only. Hope that’s alright! On page 12, Jegathesan poses the idea that the defining element of coolie is movement: … Continue reading →

This reading made be think back to one of my favorite articles from last year, “Caring for an Unsettled Senior Rescue Dog in the Anthropocene.” In this article, Douglas writes about her senior dog’s fears and trust issues as rooted in humans … Continue reading →

In her opening ceremony, Ana Maurine Lara makes the claim that “given knowledge and language… there is a responsibility to enact that knowledge and that language, and to render with great care the many ways of being that have sustained … Continue reading →

The key theme that stood out to me from Garcia’s book was that of care. In the first chapter, care was palpable in Andrés’ question of whether Garcia wanted to “observe” or to “work.” Beyond being a great example of participant … Continue reading →

From the very beginning of her work, Suh’s book threw me for a loop. On page two, Suh notes that between a quarter and a third of women in Senegalese prisons are there on abortion or infanticide charges. A quarter … Continue reading →

Something that really caught my eye in Dixon’s piece was the slippage between “professional” and “traditional” as it relates to midwifery practices. From the very get-go, Dixon presents what seems to lean towards a generational divide: “if you want traditional … Continue reading →

“While the #OurLivesMatter photo that opens this chapter issues from the same impulse to preserve Black life, it redirects the rage of young people to the realm of the doable… Progressive Dystopia maps the tension between these two tenses of victory, and … Continue reading →

I was absolutely struck by Thomas’ use of reparations as a framework for thinking through the social conditions that she witnesses. I had to read the paragraph that introduced it a few times, as I initially struggled to conceive of how … Continue reading →

Reading this text brought me back to many slightly less than fun conversations I had with my advisor while writing my senior undergrad thesis. He was a much more methodologically traditional anthropologist than I wanted to be, and we chafed … Continue reading →

I appreciated the way that Tsing’s incorporated reflections on methodological approach and collaboration within her discussions of entanglements. From the second page of text, anthropology and capital-R Research is explicitly defined by their rootedness in the very same entanglements: “Below the forest floor, fungal bodies extend … Continue reading →