Emotion and othering in a contaminated community
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on community responses to residential toxic exposure in eastern Sandusky County, Ohio, where 35 children were…
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is famous for…
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In Uttar Pradesh, many middle-class Muslims increasingly view local and transnational religious giving…
The nonanimistic worldview of Fritz Krause
The nonanimistic worldview of Fritz Krause In the acknowledgments to the English translation of “Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism,” Eduardo Vivieros de Castro (: 484) cryptically states that “After this…
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies: Autobiographic reflections on belief and the performance of multiple roles
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies: Autobiographic reflections on belief and the performance of multiple roles Given the predominantly secular approach towards religion by anthropologists and sociologists, we contend…
Mask and ancestral figure: The motif of the skin and the principle of form
Mask and ancestral figure: The motif of the skin and the principle of form Go to Source
A short biography of Fritz Krause
A short biography of Fritz Krause This brief biography of the German ethnologist Fritz Krause (1881–1963) sketches his life story, some of the intellectual influences that impacted his work, and…
Embodying and fashioning headship: A day in the life of a village headman in the center of Myanmar
Embodying and fashioning headship: A day in the life of a village headman in the center of Myanmar This article proposes an analysis of local politics through an ethnographic exploration…
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living Rosie used to say that there was nobody else like her. Her idiosyncratic way of living was an aesthetic recreation of…
The social life of pathways: Walking, giving, and building in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan
The social life of pathways: Walking, giving, and building in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan Theories of the gift agree that social relations are (re)generated through gift-giving between groups and individuals. Landscape…
The historical contingency of religious normativity: Local practices in Malaysian Islamic banking
The historical contingency of religious normativity: Local practices in Malaysian Islamic banking Regional differences in religious opinions are a major issue in Islamic banking. The Islamic contract of bay’ al-‘inah…
Travel time activities: Mobility and femininities in the ladies’ compartments of the Mumbai local trains
Travel time activities: Mobility and femininities in the ladies’ compartments of the Mumbai local trains Activities undertaken during everyday commutes have often been studied to prove the inherent value of…
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography This article draws on two examples of encounters with the limits of fog capture in Lima to…
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States A common view is that states formulate and administer policy. However, there is much in the classification and…
Virtual embodiment in physical realities: Brand buzzers and disciplined bodies in an Indonesian cyberscape
Virtual embodiment in physical realities: Brand buzzers and disciplined bodies in an Indonesian cyberscape Discussions of embodiment in the virtual world mostly focus on online games and virtual reality technologies.…
Agitation at the margins: War, reportage, and their contradiction in Iraq
Agitation at the margins: War, reportage, and their contradiction in Iraq The confusions, intimacies, and distress of war are common to the experience of journalists reporting from war zones, yet…
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration Contemporary life across the globe is awash with enterprises, programs, and practices that purport to foster self-alteration. Developing the self; self-care; transcending the self; self-actualization;…
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide Since 2017, it has become increasingly undeniable that crimes against humanity are occurring in the area now known as the…
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang This article draws almost exclusively from Chinese-language social media sites with connections to the Chinese…
“Crimes against sovereignty”: Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang
"Crimes against sovereignty": Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang Building on anthropological observations of the Chinese state’s specific strategies and practices in the field of international…