Homeland as Echo, Nostalgia as Strategy

Tereza Kuldova Published: Categories: English

This essay rethinks Heimat through the figure of Heidi, not as a sentimental icon of Alpine innocence but as a conceptual prism through which to understand the contemporary weaponization of nostalgia. Drawing on theories of restorative nosta…

The Lost Child

Rolf Erik Scott Published: Categories: English

This film chronicles a two-day rite of passage known as Nuka Nua, or ‘Returning to one’s home village’ among the Ngadha people in central Flores, Indonesia. Nine years earlier, Ludis, a noblewoman and nurse, secretly married her beloved, Anis, a school…

Wind and Words

Roger Canals Published: Categories: English

This visual essay is an example of what I call an ‘ethnographic making-of’: a film that deconstructs the production of anthropological films (see The Image That Never Ends: A Journey Through Visual Anthropology, Berghahn Books, 2025). Wind and Words di…

Jimmy’s Archive

Esme Andrews Published: Categories: English

‘50 years ago today they landed on the moon… and I’m still waiting for that future’. Jimmy’s Archive provides an intimate portrait of home, place and aging in a rapidly changing urban landscape. It also contributes to practices of multi-modal anthrop…

Living Water

Pavel Borecký Published: Categories: English

The vibration of machines echoes across the desert. Ever since Jordanian nomads settled in the spectacular landscape of Wadi Rum, they have grown dependent on complex water infrastructure. The source is right below their feet, yet they still struggle t…

Our Little Garden

Esme Andrews Published: Categories: English

Our Little Garden explores in the hustle of Santiago de Chile’s megacity how gardeners of different ages have found a respite, a connection to the soil and a community in an organic urban garden at the edges of the capital city. Organic gardening not o…

CAES Vol. 11, № 4

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Editor’s foreword  Articles Comparing the main Ainu kinship terms with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts (Part II) Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Ainu kinship terms “uncle”, “aunt”, “grandfather”, “grandmother”, “husband”, “wife” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan counterparts. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *ʔaca [*ʔatsa] “uncle” correlates with Balti ace· ”uncle (paternal)”, Sak acɨ́  “father’s brother” / “uncle”, Rengma achu ”uncle”, and Tsangla […]

Jóvenes migrantes en situación de sinhogarismo: salud y acceso al sistema sanitario. Una mirada a la violencia estructural desde la epidemiología crítica

Anna De Andrés Aguayo Published: Categories: Catalan · Multilingual · Spanish

Este trabajo explora, desde la mirada de la epidemiología crítica, las experiencias de jóvenes migrantes en situación de sinhogarismo en la ciudad de Barcelona relacionadas con el proceso migratorio, la salud y el acceso al sistema sanitario. …