Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is famous for…
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In Uttar Pradesh, many middle-class Muslims increasingly view local and transnational religious giving…
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies: Autobiographic reflections on belief and the performance of multiple roles
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies: Autobiographic reflections on belief and the performance of multiple roles Given the predominantly secular approach towards religion by anthropologists and sociologists, we contend…
The nonanimistic worldview of Fritz Krause
The nonanimistic worldview of Fritz Krause In the acknowledgments to the English translation of “Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism,” Eduardo Vivieros de Castro (: 484) cryptically states that “After this…
A short biography of Fritz Krause
A short biography of Fritz Krause This brief biography of the German ethnologist Fritz Krause (1881–1963) sketches his life story, some of the intellectual influences that impacted his work, and…
Mask and ancestral figure: The motif of the skin and the principle of form
Mask and ancestral figure: The motif of the skin and the principle of form Go to Source
Embodying and fashioning headship: A day in the life of a village headman in the center of Myanmar
Embodying and fashioning headship: A day in the life of a village headman in the center of Myanmar This article proposes an analysis of local politics through an ethnographic exploration…
The historical contingency of religious normativity: Local practices in Malaysian Islamic banking
The historical contingency of religious normativity: Local practices in Malaysian Islamic banking Regional differences in religious opinions are a major issue in Islamic banking. The Islamic contract of bay’ al-‘inah…
The social life of pathways: Walking, giving, and building in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan
The social life of pathways: Walking, giving, and building in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan Theories of the gift agree that social relations are (re)generated through gift-giving between groups and individuals. Landscape…
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living Rosie used to say that there was nobody else like her. Her idiosyncratic way of living was an aesthetic recreation of…
Travel time activities: Mobility and femininities in the ladies’ compartments of the Mumbai local trains
Travel time activities: Mobility and femininities in the ladies’ compartments of the Mumbai local trains Activities undertaken during everyday commutes have often been studied to prove the inherent value of…
Agitation at the margins: War, reportage, and their contradiction in Iraq
Agitation at the margins: War, reportage, and their contradiction in Iraq The confusions, intimacies, and distress of war are common to the experience of journalists reporting from war zones, yet…
Virtual embodiment in physical realities: Brand buzzers and disciplined bodies in an Indonesian cyberscape
Virtual embodiment in physical realities: Brand buzzers and disciplined bodies in an Indonesian cyberscape Discussions of embodiment in the virtual world mostly focus on online games and virtual reality technologies.…
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States A common view is that states formulate and administer policy. However, there is much in the classification and…
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography This article draws on two examples of encounters with the limits of fog capture in Lima to…
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration Contemporary life across the globe is awash with enterprises, programs, and practices that purport to foster self-alteration. Developing the self; self-care; transcending the self; self-actualization;…
Should Uyghurs be considered an Indigenous people?
Should Uyghurs be considered an Indigenous people? This article asks whether Uyghurs should be considered an Indigenous people. In doing so, it highlights the contested issues this question raises and…
“Crimes against sovereignty”: Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang
"Crimes against sovereignty": Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang Building on anthropological observations of the Chinese state’s specific strategies and practices in the field of international…
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang This article draws almost exclusively from Chinese-language social media sites with connections to the Chinese…
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide Since 2017, it has become increasingly undeniable that crimes against humanity are occurring in the area now known as the…