Ethics, self-knowledge, and life taken as a whole
Ethics, self-knowledge, and life taken as a whole What does thinking of “world as a whole, life” entail for ethnography? Would the modification of life with the adjectival everyday— “every…
Revisiting “the repugnant other” in the era of Trump
Revisiting “the repugnant other” in the era of Trump Anthropology has long challenged etic characterizations of the contradictory other, highlighting the logics of putatively back- ward subjects. Recent punditry on…
Popfinance: From the economic man to the Swabian housewife
Popfinance: From the economic man to the Swabian housewife This article is based on my field work on finance seminars and consultancies in Germany, which are part of the financial…
Irrationality and speculation in finance
Irrationality and speculation in finance Go to Source
Food-for-words: Sacrificial counterpoint and oracular articulacy in Cuba
Food-for-words: Sacrificial counterpoint and oracular articulacy in Cuba By critically engaging with anthropological theories on sacrifice and religious “mediation,” this article offers a doubly indigenous ethnographic theory of sacrifice and…
The semi-social mountain: Metapersonhood and political ontology in the Andes
The semi-social mountain: Metapersonhood and political ontology in the Andes This paper debates how Andean mountains become persons with political ontology, a post-humanist orientation that has recently highlighted this phenomenon.…
Guidelines for data management and scientific integrity in ethnography
Guidelines for data management and scientific integrity in ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
#MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice
#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 is…
#MeToo is nowhere near enough
#MeToo is nowhere near enough Go to Source
Slinging hash: Can activists and scholars play “rough music” on a one-string violin?
Slinging hash: Can activists and scholars play “rough music” on a one-string violin? Go to Source
Without impunity
Without impunity Go to Source
Therapy of desire
Therapy of desire Go to Source
Tubarão and Seu Lázaro’s dog: Spectacular and banal violence in a Brazilian favela
Tubarão and Seu Lázaro’s dog: Spectacular and banal violence in a Brazilian favela Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Affective Borderlands: Experiences in Practice of the Neo-Zionist Settling Enterprise in the Israeli Periphery
Affective Borderlands: Experiences in Practice of the Neo-Zionist Settling Enterprise in the Israeli Periphery Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Ethnographic reflections on access to care services
Ethnographic reflections on access to care services Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how gatekeepers’ ways of regulating the…
Profit, poverty and public care: austerity’s charity work
Profit, poverty and public care: austerity’s charity work Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the dynamics by which austerity,…
From learning to labour to custody for the precariat
From learning to labour to custody for the precariat Ethnography, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 531-547, December 2018. Go to Source
Visual Methods in Ethnography
Visual Methods in Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 719-728, December 2018. Go to Source
When I Was a Swahili Woman: The Possibilities and Perils of “Going Native” in a Culture of Secrecy
When I Was a Swahili Woman: The Possibilities and Perils of “Going Native” in a Culture of Secrecy Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Instructions for God’s Gift: Emotional Management in the Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Sexuality
Instructions for God’s Gift: Emotional Management in the Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Sexuality Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source