Anthropology

As the study of humanity (in all its diversity) remains the core business of the anthropologists, this chapter focuses on the wide range of anthropological scholarship on human mobilities. I briefly sketch the genealogy of conceptualizations of mobility and mobile methods in anthropology. Over the years, anthropologists have studied the most diverse forms of (im)mobility around the world and this is not an exhaustive review of all that work. Rather, I zoom in on key epistemological and methodological issues within social and cultural anthropology that have important repercussions for mobility studies as a whole