Geological sores: minerals, toxicities, and rumors in DR Congo
Geological sores: minerals, toxicities, and rumors in DR Congo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With a growing scholarship on post-industrialism, an ethnographic view about industrial mining industry in DR Congo remains…
Ethnography of the ‘Southern islands’: Arai Hakuseki, Ryukyuan diplomacy, and the making of ethnological knowledge in early modern Japan
Ethnography of the ‘Southern islands’: Arai Hakuseki, Ryukyuan diplomacy, and the making of ethnological knowledge in early modern Japan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study reexamines Arai Hakuseki’sNantōshi(Records of the…
Ethnosexual boundaries in the fergana valley: An ethnographic account of interethnic marriages in post-soviet central Asia
Ethnosexual boundaries in the fergana valley: An ethnographic account of interethnic marriages in post-soviet central Asia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper develops an ethnographically grounded framework for understanding ethnosexual…
Entangled positionality: Relational ethnography and interconnected small worlds in sports coaching research
Entangled positionality: Relational ethnography and interconnected small worlds in sports coaching research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper develops the concept of entangled positionality as a way of theorising how…
Catalyzed commoning: Boundary spanners and the politics of rural revitalization in China
Catalyzed commoning: Boundary spanners and the politics of rural revitalization in China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on an ethnography of a northern Chinese village, this article examines how collective…
Emotion-as-method (EAM) in ethnographic research on collective trauma
Emotion-as-method (EAM) in ethnographic research on collective trauma Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic studies of collective trauma often overlook the ways emotion surfaces beyond speech, in silences, atmospheres, and bodily…
Uneventful ethnography and the unfolding fieldwork in search of digital nomads in rural Japan
Uneventful ethnography and the unfolding fieldwork in search of digital nomads in rural Japan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Uneventful ethnography is an attempt to enable fieldworkers to capture social and…
The negotiation of feedback: Reporting back to teachers during fieldwork?
The negotiation of feedback: Reporting back to teachers during fieldwork? Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study examines how an ethnographer of education and biology teachers negotiate roles during collaborative fieldwork…
Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies
Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of studying uncomfortable otherness – otherness that is…
Reflexive aspirations, biopolitics, and atmospheres and caste
Reflexive aspirations, biopolitics, and atmospheres and caste Go to Source
The vital and the rational
The vital and the rational Go to Source
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments Go to Source
Thinking through bloody handprints on saints’ graves: The political ontology of ritual artifacts in the Negev Bedouin ziyāra
Thinking through bloody handprints on saints’ graves: The political ontology of ritual artifacts in the Negev Bedouin ziyāra This essay explores ritual artifacts from ontological, material, and processual perspectives by…
The farmer and the ditch digger
The farmer and the ditch digger Go to Source
Care and living materialities
Care and living materialities Go to Source
Has my own anthropology of tuberculosis been breathless?
Has my own anthropology of tuberculosis been breathless? Go to Source
Dust piles on fire
Dust piles on fire Go to Source
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material I revisit Tylor’s animism to survey these assessments of (im)materiality in Pacific religious movements. Spirit remains central in island constructions of the person and the community. Although…
Growing up in Europe: The European concept of kinship and how it shapes society and the state
Growing up in Europe: The European concept of kinship and how it shapes society and the state I argue that theories of kinship and their critique have been dominated by…
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality What does it mean to be “near” for families with autistic teenagers and young adults in Denmark? We explore this question, drawing…