Category:householding-essays
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...