Calling through the water jar: Domestic objects in Nahua emotional assemblages
Calling through the water jar: Domestic objects in Nahua emotional assemblages This article re-examines human–object relations in an Indigenous Nahua context in Mexico. Inspired by the Deleuzian notion of assemblage,…
Deception in practice: Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain
Deception in practice: Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain Deception is a recurrent strategy deployed in the relations between human beings, between humans and animals, and even between animals,…
Brand displaced: Trademarking, unmarking, and making the generic
Brand displaced: Trademarking, unmarking, and making the generic In this paper, I examine the creation of prop “non-brands” in the United States movie and television industry. In taking up the…
Material deceptions and the qualities of time
Material deceptions and the qualities of time Go to Source
Doing Waiting: An Ethnomethodological Analysis
Doing Waiting: An Ethnomethodological Analysis Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Waiting is an activity that is virtually carried out by everybody at every time and everywhere. In contrast…
Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris
Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores how the practice of Jewish…
The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork
The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Black Athenians: Making and Resisting Racialized Symbolic Boundaries in the Greek Street Market
Black Athenians: Making and Resisting Racialized Symbolic Boundaries in the Greek Street Market Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I show how groups and individuals maintain…
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Between Boredom, Protest, and Community: Ethnography of Young Activists in a South African Township
Between Boredom, Protest, and Community: Ethnography of Young Activists in a South African Township Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on an ethnographic study of…
Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark
Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
An ethnography of public events: Reformulating the extended case method in contemporary social theory
An ethnography of public events: Reformulating the extended case method in contemporary social theory Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
When interlocutors die: Time and space of mobility through the biography of a homeless man
When interlocutors die: Time and space of mobility through the biography of a homeless man Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Brokering labour: The politics of markets in the Kathmandu construction industry
Brokering labour: The politics of markets in the Kathmandu construction industry Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro: Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric
Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro: Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric This article explores a set of vernacular notions used by the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region to…
Contemporary counterconduct
Contemporary counterconduct In this lecture delivered at Stanford University in February 2019, I explore—in a writing style that I call, following Adorno, “late style”—a conduct that counters pressures to behave…
Amerindian political economies of life
Amerindian political economies of life Elaborating on the notion of “political economy of life,” first developed in a 2009 book on indigenous forms of slavery and servitude, I argue that…
Life, domesticated and undomesticated: Ghosts, sacrifice, and the efficacy of ritual practice in early China
Life, domesticated and undomesticated: Ghosts, sacrifice, and the efficacy of ritual practice in early China This article explores classical Chinese conceptions of and practices surrounding life and vitality. Focus is…
Karma and grace: Rivalrous reckonings of fortune and misfortune
Karma and grace: Rivalrous reckonings of fortune and misfortune Karma and grace are grammars for material and moral being, each offering onto-cosmological justification for the vicissitudes of destiny. Beyond their…