Dam money and displacement: Laws and intimate rupture in the Muş Alpaslan-1 Dam Project, eastern Turkey
Dam money and displacement: Laws and intimate rupture in the Muş Alpaslan-1 Dam Project, eastern Turkey Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Dams are often framed as emblems of national progress and…
Concerning the boundaries of serious anthropology, or: Can witches fly?
Concerning the boundaries of serious anthropology, or: Can witches fly? In a commentary on German anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s, the literary critic Peter Braun has remarked that Duerr’s…
Philippe Descola and art history, past and present
Philippe Descola and art history, past and present Go to Source
The “Descolian square” in the face of figuration
The “Descolian square” in the face of figuration Go to Source
Descola’s figures of the invisible
Descola’s figures of the invisible Go to Source
Figurations of the world: What Descola sees
Figurations of the world: What Descola sees Go to Source
Hidden Violence and Everyday Negotiation: An Autoethnography of Neoliberal Precarity in Graduate Life
Hidden Violence and Everyday Negotiation: An Autoethnography of Neoliberal Precarity in Graduate Life Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Universities worldwide increasingly prioritize quantifiable outputs—publication counts, citation metrics, global…
Banal Nationalism and Imperial Memory in Urban Space: Exploring the Memorialization of Captain Scott in Cardiff’s Semiotic Landscape
Banal Nationalism and Imperial Memory in Urban Space: Exploring the Memorialization of Captain Scott in Cardiff’s Semiotic Landscape Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines memorials and…
“When Will the War End, You Tell Me?” An Autoethnography of Unending War in Qasr-e Shirin, Western Iran
“When Will the War End, You Tell Me?” An Autoethnography of Unending War in Qasr-e Shirin, Western Iran Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article uses an autoethnographic…
Complicit Bodies: A Carnal Sociology of Robot Interactions in Dementia Care
Complicit Bodies: A Carnal Sociology of Robot Interactions in Dementia Care Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the embodied entanglement of the ethnographic researcher in the…
“I Have Nowt, But I Have Me Mates”: Ties That Bind and Blind—Bonding to Dark Social Capital in a Deindustrialized English Village
“I Have Nowt, But I Have Me Mates”: Ties That Bind and Blind—Bonding to Dark Social Capital in a Deindustrialized English Village Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based…
Mammoth 2.0: Recombinant time from tundra to biotech
Mammoth : Recombinant time from tundra to biotech Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Russian Arctic and the United States, this article examines de-extinction—the technoscientific effort to recreate…
How did borders get so bad?: Meaning and function between Honduras and El Salvador
How did borders get so bad?: Meaning and function between Honduras and El Salvador Recent anthropology theorizes borders primarily as technologies of exclusion that perpetuate structural inequality and racialized violence.…
Surprises in a minor key: Doing ethnology and anthropology in post/socialist modernities
Surprises in a minor key: Doing ethnology and anthropology in post/socialist modernities What are the epistemological strategies of anthropology as a globally decentered discipline? How do anthropologists work beyond the…
When silence speaks: Negotiating memory and inter-generational relationships in leftist families in Turkey
When silence speaks: Negotiating memory and inter-generational relationships in leftist families in Turkey Drawing on fieldwork in Istanbul, this article explores the practices of silencing characterizing relationships between parents and…
In the witches’ kitchen: The anarchist anthropology of Hans Peter Duerr
In the witches’ kitchen: The anarchist anthropology of Hans Peter Duerr An introduction to Hans Peter Duerr’s severely neglected classic, Dreamtime (1978) anthropology is finally receiving much-needed attention; hence, the…
Fighting the system, saving the Earth: Understanding climate change in Czech conspiritual milieu
Fighting the system, saving the Earth: Understanding climate change in Czech conspiritual milieu This article shows how the environmental crisis is understood and conceptualized within the Czech conspiritual milieu. It…
Red-pilled: Memetic truthiness, sticky stories, and anthropology’s unruly heritage of epistemic contingency
Red-pilled: Memetic truthiness, sticky stories, and anthropology’s unruly heritage of epistemic contingency This article contributes to anthropological scholarship on the politics of (post-)truth by linking anthropology’s legacy of epistemic contingency…
Obstinate truths: Eigensinn, epistemic contrarianism and the outer edges of anthropological knowledge-making
Obstinate truths: Eigensinn, epistemic contrarianism and the outer edges of anthropological knowledge-making This article examines a central epistemological dilemma of the post-truth moment: how anthropology can remain committed to grounding…
A new paradigm in the American Anthropological Association: Neo-Racial Anthropology
A new paradigm in the American Anthropological Association: Neo-Racial Anthropology Is the most critical issue facing anthropology departments their whiteness? In an address to the American Anthropological Association, then-president Akhil…