Category:householding

August 6, 2025

Epilogue: Explorations in Householding

by Naveeda Khan and Sojung Kim By this time if you have read a few of the essays that fall under the term “household,”...

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August 6, 2025

Householding at the Magh Mela

This brief reflection addresses the question "Is the household self-contained?" It does so by considering what might be thought of as a limit case—an...

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August 6, 2025

Saunsaar: Householding in the Shadow of Land Dispossession

What is it to household under circumstances of hunger and impending displacement? By foregrounding the lives of villagers affected by an unfolding multibillion-dollar land...

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August 6, 2025

Displaced Rituals

This piece traces the work of ritual in everyday life through an ethnography of Jesa—Korean ancestral rites—among North Korean migrant women living in South...

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August 6, 2025

Continuity amid Rupture: Reverberations of Jeju 4.3 (Sasam) in the Household

How do survivors of a state atrocity recall its traces? In the drawings and stories of Wan-soon Ko, a Jeju islander who lived through...

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August 6, 2025

Zarina and the Zenana

Vines and lizards clamber over the white washed walls of a courtyard home in the Indian city of Aligarh, where the artist Zarina was...

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August 6, 2025

Agungi (Fireplace), Firewood, Deities, and Householding

This essay explores the changing meanings of the traditional Korean fireplace (agungi)—from an ordinary yet sacred place overseen by household deities in the 1950s...

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August 5, 2025

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Anthropologists of India and South Korea, with interests ranging from state violence to pilgrimage, examine how their interlocuters come together to “household” in times...

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