A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity
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Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential
Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential Go to Source
“Again you will plant vineyards”: Prophecy, Jewish settlement, and temporal dissonance in the occupied West Bank
“Again you will plant vineyards”: Prophecy, Jewish settlement, and temporal dissonance in the occupied West Bank Studies of prophecy in the context of Judaism have predominantly attended to how messianic…
Failures of being: The Christian promise of acceptance in Sinja, Nepal
Failures of being: The Christian promise of acceptance in Sinja, Nepal “Being” can be a heavy burden to carry in Sinja, Nepal. The lack of a given self comparable to…
Introduction: Evidence, ambiguity, and expression in Big Mouth
Introduction: Evidence, ambiguity, and expression in Big Mouth This Forum brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who reflect with us about our film-in-progress, Big Mouth, about defamation, sexual violence,…
Multimodal feminist testimony: On ambiguity, embodiment, and evidence in Guinea
Multimodal feminist testimony: On ambiguity, embodiment, and evidence in Guinea Political subjectivities that are produced outside the realm of formal politics and activism often go unnoticed in scholarly analyses. This…
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation: Negotiating promises and pitfalls in interwoven projects of judicial truth-telling and documentary filmmaking
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation: Negotiating promises and pitfalls in interwoven projects of judicial truth-telling and documentary filmmaking The contested evidentiary status and supposed ambiguity of a survivor’s…
Living in a world of others: A politics of grace and favors in a Romanian mahala
Living in a world of others: A politics of grace and favors in a Romanian mahala The phrase “Roma politics” has come to designate several topics, such as the movement…
In defense of the heart: An Amazonian politics of respect
In defense of the heart: An Amazonian politics of respect The concept of defense-respect is elaborated here as a cornerstone of Urarina ethics and politics and an alternative to the…
Deflecting responsibility: Spirits in Southeast Asia and “systems” in Western modernity
Deflecting responsibility: Spirits in Southeast Asia and “systems” in Western modernity While studies of responsibility have been concerned with the ways responsibility is traced to accountable human persons or institutions,…
Not “multiple ontologies” but ontic capaciousness: Radical alterity after the ontological turn
Not “multiple ontologies” but ontic capaciousness: Radical alterity after the ontological turn This essay articulates a framework for understanding radical alterity in the aftermath of the abandonment of strong claims…
Amazonia by steam: Vicissitudes of a geometric revolution
Amazonia by steam: Vicissitudes of a geometric revolution In the 1890s, at the height of the rubber boom, steamboats dominate the rivers of Bolivian Amazonia. The technophile discourse of the…
From reasons of state to individual interest: Morality, power and the political category
From reasons of state to individual interest: Morality, power and the political category This article argues that political anthropology has never had a version of the substantivist/formalist debate that shaped…
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good governance, translation and word coinage in Thailand
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good governance, translation and word coinage in Thailand This article explores the emergence and transformation of the concept of good governance in contemporary Thailand after…
Northwest African perspectives on the concept of the state
Northwest African perspectives on the concept of the state The state of most current political anthropology tends to be the modern nation-state, and relatively few works address questions posed by…
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era People marching in the streets in Burma in 1988, infuriated by twenty-six years of military dictatorship, demanded the return…
From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy: The emergence of a “political” vocabulary among the Sora of Tribal India
From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy: The emergence of a “political” vocabulary among the Sora of Tribal India The Sora language reveals a sharp division between the vocabulary of command…
The clash of sovereignties: The Latvian subject and its Russian imperialism
The clash of sovereignties: The Latvian subject and its Russian imperialism Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is occupying the minds of pundits, scholars, and politicians worldwide and across the political spectrum.…
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine This article takes up the loaded topic of “Russia in the world of Ukraine.” Now an object of official Russia’s aggressive attention, contemporary…
Imperialist ideology or depoliticization? Why Russian citizens support the invasion of Ukraine
Imperialist ideology or depoliticization? Why Russian citizens support the invasion of Ukraine What explains the wide support for the invasion of Ukraine in Russia in the first months after it…