The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa
The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Embodying the nation: The production of sameness and difference in national-day parades
Embodying the nation: The production of sameness and difference in national-day parades Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Total social phenomena and social dynamics
Total social phenomena and social dynamics Go to Source
Introduction to The semi-scholars, by Arnold van Gennep
Introduction to The semi-scholars, by Arnold van Gennep Go to Source
The semi-scholars
The semi-scholars Go to Source
Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space
Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i
Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i What does it mean to be rich? This paper explores prosperity from the perspective not of material…
Precariousness and prosperity among Javanese fish traders
Precariousness and prosperity among Javanese fish traders Fish traders in a port on the north coast of Central Java say that they work as hard as they do so that…
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia The paper explores contemporary practices of value multiplication among Muslims in Indonesia, paying particular attention to the rise to public prominence…
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman This article aims to problematize the well-rehearsed argument that the rise of the neoliberal tide has…
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali This article explores the relationship between religiosity and prosperity through a particular ethnographic case from Mali and interrogates…
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament—a return to a…
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic…
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species This essay explores experiences that lie ambiguously between the inchoate, the intuitive, and the…
Alternate modes of prosperity
Alternate modes of prosperity Go to Source
“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria
“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria This article explores the ways in which Ramadan charity and almsgiving in Aleppo before the current…
#MeToo: #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice
#MeToo: #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice This Shortcuts section engages the debate on whether the #MeToo movement…
Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics
Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics Anthropologists working on ethics have emphasized the importance of freedom for the becoming of ethical subjects. While some…
Turning to life: A comment
Turning to life: A comment Life is a concept that is commonly encountered in ethnographicl iterature. Most social anthropologists seem happy to live with a broadly uncritical approach to it.…
The possibility of life
The possibility of life In a 2012 critique of John D. Barrow’s The artful universe, I explored the problems inherent in attempting to predict what can andcannothappen—what is and is…