Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since the ‘performative turn’ in social sciences, ethnographers have extensively studied…
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I explore the reflexive tensions of a Muslim…
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Trad nationalist a/effects
Trad nationalist a/effects Go to Source
The perils of national narratives
The perils of national narratives Go to Source
Subversive comparisons
Subversive comparisons Go to Source
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism Go to Source
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state Go to Source
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains The mummy of the Altaian Princess is one of the…
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity Using theoretical debates about how to deploy reflexivity in ethnographic research to…
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia This article discusses two distinct notions of harm, wakllichishka and oil harm, and two distinct ways of…
Scales of subversion
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Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism Go to Source
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust: An exploration
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust: An exploration This article examines the phenomenon of migration in India’s villages. Drawing on research in Jharkhand and Maharashtra and selected village ethnographies it illustrates…
Uncanny ethics: Locating the coordinates of the ethical in the COVID-19 pandemic
Uncanny ethics: Locating the coordinates of the ethical in the COVID-19 pandemic The recent anthropological focus on “ordinary ethics” emerges out of a concern to attend to the ethical aspect…
Ethnography as creative improvisation: Exploring methods in (post) pandemic times
Ethnography as creative improvisation: Exploring methods in (post) pandemic times This article discusses the possibilities and limitations of digital creative methods developed by the author in response to lockdown and…
Video footage and the grain of practice
Video footage and the grain of practice In his essay on the cockfight, Clifford Geertz charted a now familiar course in anthropological argument. He showed how the minute details of…
There was no future in the past: Time and the environment in rural Namibia
There was no future in the past: Time and the environment in rural Namibia To explain how Namibian pastoralists envision the future of the climate and the environment, I develop…
Magic, metaphysics, and methods
Magic, metaphysics, and methods Go to Source
Economy, emulation, and equality: Sociogenesis in the postsocialist capitalocene: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 21, 2022
Economy, emulation, and equality: Sociogenesis in the postsocialist capitalocene: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 21, 2022 Economy and emulation are freighted concepts. They draw attention to universal phenomena, the…