On peace, self-love, and humanism
On peace, self-love, and humanism Go to Source
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions Go to Source
Anthropology and world peace
Anthropology and world peace The pursuit of world peace has long been part of the telos of modern anthropology, although this may not be particularly obvious in the discipline’s teaching…
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture Go to Source
Racial burdens, translations, and chance
Racial burdens, translations, and chance Go to Source
Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on São Tomé Island
Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on São Tomé Island Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I examine how scales are produced, stabilized, and challenged through communicative practices, and…
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In ethnographic research and analysis, reflexivity is vital to achieving constant coordination between field and concept work. However,…
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Anthropologists see life-cycle rituals as a significant way to understand gender roles and…
“Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing
“Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. We analyze the relations between ethnographic data and theory through an examination of materiality…
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic research is a thoroughly material matter, but the involvement of material things in performing ethnographic methods is…
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In 2000, one of Pakistan’s largest social movements began: a tenant struggle for land rights on the…
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Digital audio technologies have expanded the methodological possibilities for anthropological research. This article explores some of the implications of…
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the following article, I explore how tarot card readers (and other…
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Migration to the Gulf Countries of the United Arab…
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article theorizes the fieldwork experiences that I gained while…
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Caught in the context of a highly competitive…
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on ethnographic research between 2016 and 2018, this article examines the role…
“We Offer Nuffle a Sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultual Viability
“We Offer Nuffle a Sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultual Viability Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This…
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper discusses the decline of traditional pottery making in rural southwestern…
The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective
The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The battle jacket—a sleeveless denim jacket customized with band patches—is a staple item…