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…
On the trail of blood: History and kinship in Jacmel, Haiti
On the trail of blood: History and kinship in Jacmel, Haiti This article examines narratives of blood and history in Lafond, a small rural village in the Haitian Southeast. Drawing…
Menstruation in a transitioning body: The embodied experience of menstruation among Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people
Menstruation in a transitioning body: The embodied experience of menstruation among Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people This article delves into the unique menstruation experiences of Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people,…
Win Neisen 2020: Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Win Neisen 2020: Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea) Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known…
Of blood and stone: The emplaced reality of Marian statue devotion in Bougainville
Of blood and stone: The emplaced reality of Marian statue devotion in Bougainville This article explores how transcendent, immaterial spiritual entities have material presence by focusing on Marian statue devotion…
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu This article examines how the invisible spiritual world takes material form in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Drawing…
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology Anthropological studies of Pentecostal and evangelical faith practices and experiences frequently reveal that followers struggle…
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea I analyze the power of things to direct the actions and shape the belief of…
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon Difficulties in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge within Amazonian societies impact collective…
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names It is argued that in the case of the Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil, with…
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements Instead of reproducing an assumed opposition between immaterial and material religious elements to lived religious worlds, this special section approaches the issue of…
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia Melanesia in the 1970s was the scene of an enormous religious transformation. Across the region, charismatic religiosity engulfed innumerable communities,…
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati In this study, I explore the role and relationship of material and immaterial entities as constituents of a religious…
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola)
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola) Xinguilamento is an Angolan ritual based on possession by ilundu spirits. Ilundu are considered to be hereditary illnesses transmitted…
Substances and relationalities
Substances and relationalities Go to Source
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations Go to Source
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago Through two stories collected among residents of the Ilhabela archipelago during my PhD fieldwork on how to…
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina In the upland indigenous villages of Northwestern Andean Argentina, the ethnography of ritual offerings to the Pachamama (Mother Earth)…