From the Long Arm of the State to Eyes on the Street: How Poor African American Mothers Navigate Surveillance in the Social Safety Net
From the Long Arm of the State to Eyes on the Street: How Poor African American Mothers Navigate Surveillance in the Social Safety Net Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of…
Conflict chatnography: Instant messaging apps, social media and conflict ethnography in Ukraine
Conflict chatnography: Instant messaging apps, social media and conflict ethnography in Ukraine Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
The problem of affinity in Amazonia
The problem of affinity in Amazonia Go to Source
Oedipus and Job in West African religion: The 1956 Frazer Lecture
Oedipus and Job in West African religion: The 1956 Frazer Lecture Go to Source
On the practice of at-home ethnography
On the practice of at-home ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 212-219, July 2018. Go to Source
Thrice-born and in-between? Exploring the Différance between “At-home” ethnography and ethnography abroad
Thrice-born and in-between? Exploring the Différance between “At-home” ethnography and ethnography abroad Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 106-113, July 2018. Go to Source
Communication and ritual at the comic book shop
Communication and ritual at the comic book shop Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the rituals and communicative practices that…
For an anthropology of destiny
For an anthropology of destiny This preface develops an argument for a comparative anthropology that takes the concept of destiny as a fertile laboratory for anthropological thought. The articles in…
Destiny in hindsight: Impotentiality and intentional action in contemporary Yemen
Destiny in hindsight: Impotentiality and intentional action in contemporary Yemen Zaydis are a Shiite sect, widespread in Highland Yemen, that upholds a doctrine of free will and human accountability. However,…
Corporal destinies: Faith, ethno-nationalism, and raw talent in Fijian professional rugby aspirations
Corporal destinies: Faith, ethno-nationalism, and raw talent in Fijian professional rugby aspirations Many young itaukei (indigenous) Fijian men train daily in the hope of becoming professional rugby athletes, despite the…
Caught in the language of fate: The quality of destiny in Taiwan
Caught in the language of fate: The quality of destiny in Taiwan In Taiwan, fate (mingyun) powerfully emerges and circulates in and through language. I focus on three core genres…
Destiny as a relationship
Destiny as a relationship This afterword takes a closer look at relationships of power involved in destiny, taking inspiration from questions and answers offered in this special section on anthropologies…
The politics of the real economy
The politics of the real economy In this special section of Hau (part II), we present four texts that allow us to go further with the objective to provoke the…
How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance
How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance For most American households today, a college education requires financial planning. Planning can seem like a…
Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money: Multiple monies during currency exchange restrictions in Argentina (2011–15)
Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money: Multiple monies during currency exchange restrictions in Argentina (2011–15) This article aims to show that the properties of money are temporally and…
Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances
Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances This essay seeks to describe the efforts made to portray the “reality of smuggling” in Brazil by analyzing the instruments and the strategies…
The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure?
The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? What is the source of ethnographic truth? One might just as well ask what is the real economy,…
Ordinary possibility, transcendent immanence, and responsive ethics: A philosophical anthropology of the small event
Ordinary possibility, transcendent immanence, and responsive ethics: A philosophical anthropology of the small event Based upon long-term fieldwork among African American families in Los Angeles, this article offers a phenomenological…
Surviving loss and remaking the world: Reflections on the singular universal in a West African setting
Surviving loss and remaking the world: Reflections on the singular universal in a West African setting As an ethnographer, I am obliged to reflect on the philosophical implications of my…
Being open to the world
Being open to the world As the Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka poetically phrased it, human beings are “beings of the far reaches.” Our human condition is, in other words, conditioned…