Many ethnographers feel the pressure to suspend familial and professional ties to separate
“the field” from “home” for prolonged periods. Since 2019, we have been developing the …

Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic
of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how …

More than a decade ago, at the beginning of my doctoral fieldwork, I was kidnapped and
robbed one morning in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As I negotiated the logistical and …