Cultural Anthropology began publishing photo essays on its website in 2012, amid wide-ranging discussions about alternative forms of critical ethnographic expression. In 2016, this section was relaunched as a collaboration with the Society for Visual Anthropology known as Writing with Light. While further submissions are no longer being accepted, the peer-reviewed photo essays presented here testify to a fertile period of experimentation and engagement with visual scholarship.
Activist Objects: The Materiality and Meaning of Human Remains in Postconflict Peru
In this essay, I explore an event that inspired my interest in the performative aspects of making political claims. The images included here were made at the Ap... More
Ryzyka: A Curated Conversation
I walked into the director’s office of the cultural center in the village of Severnoye—a settlement that was recently renovated with the support of a regional p... More
Internet Famous in Real Life: Becoming a Street Style Star at New York Fashion Week
Internet famous and famous for being famous are two common terms of derision used in reference to online celebrities like bloggers and street style stars. This ... More
As Fluid as a Brick Wall
Livia Stone became fascinated with the surfaces of Oaxaca de Juarez’s walls while doing ethnographic research in the city in 2009. She took the images presented... More
Imagining Precarious Life in Tulum, Mexico
Until recently, Tulum was a small, quiet town. On the Caribbean side of Mexico, close to Mayan ruins, few cabanas lined its broad white beach and these drew mai... More
Corpus: Mining the Border
Editors’ Introduction In 2010, a conversation was ignited over incorporating photo essays into the new Cultural Anthropology website. The conversation, which st... More
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