As Roy Richard Grinker,1 an anthropologist and a father of an autistic girl, points out, despite autism being “a terrible, lifelong disorder”, it is “a better time than ever to be autistic” because a person with this diagnosis has access to more services and opportunities than ever before. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of problems to be solved and questions to be answered. One of them (mo...

JEFFREY L. SOLOMON is a research project manager at Harvard Project Zero, which is housed in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A cultural anthropologist by training, he is interested in how personal and social contexts influence how people conceptualize themselves, the goals they establish, and the actions they take across the life span. He is currently working on a book about the style...

As Roy Richard Grinker [1], an anthropologist and a father of an autistic girl, points out, despite autism being “a terrible, lifelong disorder”, it is “a better time than ever to be autistic” because a person with this diagnosis has access to more services and opportunities than ever before. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of problems to be solved and questions to be answered. One of them ...

This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on well-established role photography within anthropological canon, this looks with a new criticality act by anthropologist both performative praxis and ethnographic tool. Employing series photographs taken in Venice, how taking self-portraits to enrich Instagram self is vital step research...