Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus
Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus Go to Source
The semantics of akisemem: A response to Michael Herzfeld
The semantics of akisemem: A response to Michael Herzfeld Go to Source
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka The formation of Catholic seminarians in Sri Lanka is dependent on rigorous prayer and study routines…
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala This article illustrates the religious formation and subjectivation of a nun through her…
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia Peer monitoring is a common feature of homosocialization among girls in Indonesian Islamic boarding schools. This article examines the…
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia In this article, I focus on the reentry of Chinese Indonesians into both politics and public religious life in…
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam Focusing on welfare challenges and crises encountered by women in contemporary Vietnam, this…
Spotlight on the liminal dividend
Spotlight on the liminal dividend Go to Source
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics…
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education From the late 1960s onwards simulation games were adopted by development education programs as an…
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021 I follow here three different prophetic movements in Africa with which I have been closely engaged. I highlight…
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality In the introduction to this special section, I discuss the way in which a focus on pedagogy in ethical practice can provide insights regarding the multifaceted…
Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of time
Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of time Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of timeSimon CombesJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print,…
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Despite the importance of both gender and elites in contemporary social life, few empirical works examine gender…
Glorifying and scapegoating narratives underlying activity-based workspaces in higher education
Glorifying and scapegoating narratives underlying activity-based workspaces in higher education Glorifying and scapegoating narratives underlying activity-based workspaces in higher educationBernadette Nooij, Claire van Teunenbroek, Christine Teelken, Marcel VeenswijkJournal of Organizational…
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article proposes a systematization of the within, between and beyond sites through which ethnographic field-making takes shape. It draws…
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnography is often…
Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographies
Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographies Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographiesJana Stefan, Alison Hirst, Marco…
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Batswana (People of Botswana) traditionally celebrate the end of seasons with dikopelo musical performances. This paper discusses Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela’s…
Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Infrastructure
Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Infrastructure Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 415-415, June 2024. Go to Source