Cristina, Febrian, and Nabila use the case study of the Batik textile industry in the Indonesian city of Pekalongan to examine the effects of industrialization on the laborers and their community.

Reflecting on the emotional experience of hearing testimony of ICE deportation, Jennifer R. Nájera asks questions about the role of the anthropologist vis-à-vis the research subject, and the place of vulnerability in a more ethical ethnography. 

Jim Sykes and Julia Suzanne Byl introduce their study of Indian Ocean musical traditions as a way to understand how music can both constitute and cross communal boundaries.