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Water protectors ‘behind the screen’. Digital activism practices within the #nodapl movement

Antropologia, 2022
The article discusses the processes of global participation and political listening towards the indigenous claims on land rights activated by the #NoDAPL movement against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Nicola Renzi
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The filigree artistry of flash ethnography

Anthropology and Humanism, 2023
SummaryThis is an afterword to a special section on flash ethnography reflecting on the filigree artistry of these short and intricate pieces that allow us as writers to be vulnerable and write in ways that are enlightening in unexpected ways.
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What if Khata Could Talk?

HIMALAYA
Tibetan pastoralists often say that many know how to graze animals (ཟོག་ལུག་འཚོ་བ), but few know how to nurture them (ཟོག་ལུག་སྐྱོང་བ). Skyong (སྐྱོང) means nurturing or attending to something or someone with tenderness.
Huatse Gyal
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On Being Back, and Being Home

HIMALAYA
This flash ethnography explores the concept of home against the backdrop of the recent spectacle of building destruction and the forceful removal of street vendors enabled by the local government in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Anudeep Dewan
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Ruins in the Making

HIMALAYA
What do high Himalayan villages feel like as they shift in form and character through patterns of outmigration and the effects of climate change? How do people wrestle with enduring connections to place, through the pain and uncertainty that accompanies ...
Sienna R Craig
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The Golden Hour

HIMALAYA
In interviews with leading emergency medicine doctors and developers of a national system of pre-hospital care in Nepal, they allude to the significance of treating trauma patients during “the golden hour”.
Jan Brunson
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Seeing the Mother’s Face

HIMALAYA
An anthropologist describes a journey to visit a friend’s mother in Nepal. As she crosses over mountains and valleys with her friends from the village, she considers the meanings of maiti, the maternal home, and what it means to see a mother’s face.
Aidan Seale-Feldman
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The Shepherd Who Did Not Lead

HIMALAYA
This is an ethnographic snapshot of an encounter with a Gaddi shepherd in the hills of Himachal Pradesh. The Gaddis are a semi-nomadic pastoral people who live across the Himalayan belt of Northern India.
Ishani Dasgupta
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Another Day at the Airport

HIMALAYA
Traveling is a complicated endeavor. For some, it is as simple as picking up one’s passport and heading to the nearest airport. For others, it is a harrowing experience, one marked by uncertainty. For tourists, traveling represents a temporary detachment
Tenzing Wangdak
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Come Drink Tea

HIMALAYA
How do you remake place as home? In Toronto, Tibetan refugees do this through asylum petitions for citizenship, the purchasing of real estate, and the refashioning of a Canadian donut shop as Tibetan cultural space.
Carole McGranahan
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