Dana McLachlin

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Dana McLachlin is a PhD student in anthropology at Duke University, with research interests in digital labor platforms, gender, and the gig economy in urban Bangladesh.

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Knots of Connection

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Knots of Connection

Donna Haraway (2016, 1) argues that in times of devastating inequality, violence, and climate change our “task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection a... More

Teaching Tools: Swim Lesson

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Teaching Tools: Swim Lesson

I nearly failed my first assignment in a pedagogy course. We were asked to provide written comments on a student’s first-year essay. I extensively marked up the... More

Teaching Ethnography through Theater

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Teaching Ethnography through Theater

Anthropologists often distinguish ethnography from other methods through the role of the researcher. In ethnography, the researcher’s social position, embodied ... More