In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 449-465, December 2024. The article provides an answer to fundamental questions of what qualifies…
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 505-522, December 2024. Peter Geschiere’s most recent writings have come to attend,…
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 486-504, December 2024. In southeastern Nigeria, Igbo-speaking people commonly assert that “a debt…
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 428-448, December 2024. Witchcraft has been described as knowledge that resists…
Reading between the bricks
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The invention of Inventing an African alphabet: Notes on the backstage of the production of anthropological knowledge
The invention of Inventing an African alphabet: Notes on the backstage of the production of anthropological knowledge Go to Source
Writing in the DRC: The creation of Mandombe, an African alphabet
Writing in the DRC: The creation of Mandombe, an African alphabet Go to Source
A life worth telling?
A life worth telling? Go to Source
Religious and scientific aspects of Mandombe
Religious and scientific aspects of Mandombe 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…
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…
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…
How newness enters the world
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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…
“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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…