A life worth telling?
A life worth telling? Go to Source
Ephemeral utopia: Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey
Ephemeral utopia: Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey This article examines the flux and reflux of commitment to jihad among immigrants to Syria. Contrary to…
As through a glass darkly: Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ
As through a glass darkly: Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ Standard Euro-American ideas of sincerity revolve around an idea of the transparent alignment of one’s outer acts with…
Android existence: The affect of artificial vitality
Android existence: The affect of artificial vitality This article investigates the affective vitality of the technical in Japanese android-making through the creation of the android Alter and its artistic performance…
Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah
Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah Seeing landscapes change seems to be an inevitable and ubiquitous experience in times of global warming. Yet, landscape…
How newness enters the world
How newness enters the world Go to Source
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In multilingual societies, it is common for the individual languages used…
The “insider” ethnographic diagnostic radiographer thinking like “an outsider”
The “insider” ethnographic diagnostic radiographer thinking like “an outsider” The “insider” ethnographic diagnostic radiographer thinking like “an outsider”Ruth Mary StrudwickJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, purpose of this…
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande Benge, the famous chicken poison oracle that Evans-Pritchard vividly described in his classic ethnography, subsequently disappeared from Zande…
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016) Mangu, what Evans-Pritchard translated into English as “witchcraft” and around which he built his landmark ethnography, has disappeared among the South Sudanese…
The kingdom, the witch, and the general
The kingdom, the witch, and the general In Western Equatoria, South Sudan, witchcraft accusations enable a narrativization of the material processes of predation that undergird the state, in a sphere…
A drum that speaks
A drum that speaks This photographic essay presents material and findings from a documentation project on the gugu (slit drum) carried out in Western Equatoria State of South Sudan between…
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia Although some Kakataibo women say that their elders did not know romantic love and that they…
“They consider themselves very different”: Disparate dreams of Zande governance across the South Sudan-Central African Republic borderland
“They consider themselves very different”: Disparate dreams of Zande governance across the South Sudan-Central African Republic borderland This article unpacks the different trajectories of a once-unified Zande people through a…
Tradition, transformation, and charting futures
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Revisiting the Azande
Revisiting the Azande This introduction to a special section, “Revisiting the Azande,” summarizes the historical context and theoretical insights of the classic ethnography Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande,…
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later Rereading Evans-Prichard’s classic fifty-five years later turned out to be a confusing experience. On the one hand, it confirmed…
“This kingdom will not be like the kingdom(s) in the era of Gbudue”: On the rebirth of the Azande Kingdom
“This kingdom will not be like the kingdom(s) in the era of Gbudue”: On the rebirth of the Azande Kingdom Colonial rule in Sudan altered kingship and ended the kingdom…
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article traces the intellectual trajectory of the anthropologist and Africanist Peter Geschiere,…
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this paper I argue that the method of participant observation is as…