Ethics and regulatory compliance in the human sciences: Anthropologists’ critique through the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Ethics and regulatory compliance in the human sciences: Anthropologists’ critique through the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Scholars in the human sciences, particularly anthropology, have long perceived tensions between…
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains In Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountain range, two Shi‘i Muslim communities write monumental messages in stone. Nizari Isma‘ilis celebrate the continuation…
Embracing risk: Islamic finance and practice in the bazaar
Embracing risk: Islamic finance and practice in the bazaar In this article I demonstrate that Muslim traders in the bazaar inhabit a practical-experiential conception of Islamic economic practice in contrast…
The coming future is now: Artists, data scientists, and artificial intelligence (AI) in India
The coming future is now: Artists, data scientists, and artificial intelligence (AI) in India Indian artists are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their creative works. While their output shows…
Malware of history: The encryption of the once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia)
Malware of history: The encryption of the once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia) The article explores a proliferation of architecture to commemorate the events of the Second…
Post-conventional anthropology: A paradigm for cultivating pluralism and confidence in uncertainty
Post-conventional anthropology: A paradigm for cultivating pluralism and confidence in uncertainty This article details an encounter of anthropological instruction on cross-cultural perceptions of the environment and cultural heritage which was…
Knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics
Knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics Go to Source
Knowing more by knowing less: Knowledge and the will to ignorance among Indonesian Buddhists
Knowing more by knowing less: Knowledge and the will to ignorance among Indonesian Buddhists In this article, I explore the theme of spiritual ignorance that is prevalent in the doctrinal…
This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola
This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola The literature on witchcraft has focused predominantly on the accusation of witches, the procedures for establishing guilt, and the…
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography: Animacy, aesthetics, and deep time
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography: Animacy, aesthetics, and deep time What does it mean for scholars to engage rocks ethnographically? And how is ethnography redefined back by an encounter with…
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I examine Bolivian hip-hoppers’ responses to the precarity of their practice, illustrating how they position…
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article examineshow and why dangerous imaginaries are constructed, how researchers’ positionalities are implicated in…
‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome
‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article analyses the conflicts that arise between students and educational institutions within the…
Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student
Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Qualitative field research can be profoundly rewarding, but it is also a…
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the…
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic paper explores modest fashion (MF) among Muslim and Jewish women in Israel…
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Developments in qualitative research have increasingly recognized the value of…
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With notable exceptions, ethnographers engaging in observant participation have not reflected on what it means tobecomethe…
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects?
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects? Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The paper addresses animals potential as ethnographic subjects. This issue challenges anthropology and its perimeter, by…
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Exploring the everyday lives of encamped refugees presents ethnographers with a delicate…