Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies
Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of studying uncomfortable otherness – otherness that is…
Reflexive aspirations, biopolitics, and atmospheres and caste
Reflexive aspirations, biopolitics, and atmospheres and caste Go to Source
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments Go to Source
The vital and the rational
The vital and the rational Go to Source
Thinking through bloody handprints on saints’ graves: The political ontology of ritual artifacts in the Negev Bedouin ziyāra
Thinking through bloody handprints on saints’ graves: The political ontology of ritual artifacts in the Negev Bedouin ziyāra This essay explores ritual artifacts from ontological, material, and processual perspectives by…
Dust piles on fire
Dust piles on fire Go to Source
Has my own anthropology of tuberculosis been breathless?
Has my own anthropology of tuberculosis been breathless? Go to Source
Care and living materialities
Care and living materialities Go to Source
The farmer and the ditch digger
The farmer and the ditch digger Go to Source
On the trail of blood: History and kinship in Jacmel, Haiti
On the trail of blood: History and kinship in Jacmel, Haiti This article examines narratives of blood and history in Lafond, a small rural village in the Haitian Southeast. Drawing…
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality What does it mean to be “near” for families with autistic teenagers and young adults in Denmark? We explore this question, drawing…
Growing up in Europe: The European concept of kinship and how it shapes society and the state
Growing up in Europe: The European concept of kinship and how it shapes society and the state I argue that theories of kinship and their critique have been dominated by…
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material I revisit Tylor’s animism to survey these assessments of (im)materiality in Pacific religious movements. Spirit remains central in island constructions of the person and the community. Although…
Menstruation in a transitioning body: The embodied experience of menstruation among Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people
Menstruation in a transitioning body: The embodied experience of menstruation among Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people This article delves into the unique menstruation experiences of Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people,…
Of blood and stone: The emplaced reality of Marian statue devotion in Bougainville
Of blood and stone: The emplaced reality of Marian statue devotion in Bougainville This article explores how transcendent, immaterial spiritual entities have material presence by focusing on Marian statue devotion…
Win Neisen 2020: Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Win Neisen 2020: Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea) Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known…
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea I analyze the power of things to direct the actions and shape the belief of…
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology Anthropological studies of Pentecostal and evangelical faith practices and experiences frequently reveal that followers struggle…
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu This article examines how the invisible spiritual world takes material form in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Drawing…
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names It is argued that in the case of the Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil, with…