Whose moods? Anthropologists in a bubble
Whose moods? Anthropologists in a bubble Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. “The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s refugee crisis.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic…
Fetishistic causation (The 2017 Stirling Lecture)
Fetishistic causation (The 2017 Stirling Lecture) In this lecture I argue that anthropology can grasp the cultural peculiarity of modernity by critically scrutinizing its foundational categories of “economy” and “technology”…
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry (The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture)
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry (The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture) Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has grown to…
Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: A response to the Las Vegas shooting
Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: A response to the Las Vegas shooting This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system…
Why do we read the classics?
Why do we read the classics? Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in…
Free gifts that must be invented
Free gifts that must be invented Go to Source
Baipurangi’s dreams: The interface between ethnography and psychoanalysis in the work of Lucien Sebag
Baipurangi’s dreams: The interface between ethnography and psychoanalysis in the work of Lucien Sebag Lucien Sebag’s “Analysis of the dreams of a Guayaki Indian woman” appeared in Les Temps modernes …
The gift in India
The gift in India This article is a previously unpublished conference talk on the use made by Marcel Mauss, in his essay on the gift, of sources in Sanskrit from…
Divine kings and the “breath of men” (The 1959 Frazer Lecture)
Divine kings and the “breath of men” (The 1959 Frazer Lecture) This article is a reprint of Wilson, Monica. 1959. “‘Divine kings’ and the breath of men.” The Frazer Lecture,…
Analysis of the dreams of a Guayaki Indian woman
Analysis of the dreams of a Guayaki Indian woman The following is a translation of Lucien Sebag’s “Analyse des rêves d’une Indienne Guayaki,” originally printed in Les Temps modernes, CCXVII,…
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
KORA: A Digital Repository and Publishing Platform
KORA: A Digital Repository and Publishing Platform Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract MATRIX has developed an open source application that cultural and educational institutions can use to preserve digital materials…
Architecture to Enable Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Millions of Volumes
Architecture to Enable Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Millions of Volumes Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center that provides Digital Humanities researchers…
TEI Boilerplate
TEI Boilerplate Poster Download (PDF, ) Introduction TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight, HTML5 compliant framework for publishing TEI documents. TEI Boilerplate (TEIBP) is designed to bridge the gap between the…
Textal: A Text Analysis Smartphone App for Digital Humanities
Textal: A Text Analysis Smartphone App for Digital Humanities Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract This poster introduces Textal, a text analysis application for iOS, and text analysis service infrastructure, which…
Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities
Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities This paper is about data in the humanities. Most of my colleagues in literary and cultural studies would not necessarily speak of…
Toward an anthropology of intersubjectivity
Toward an anthropology of intersubjectivity Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
Action
Action Response to comments on Enfield, N. J., and Jack Sidnell. 2017. The concept of action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
The narrative sense of others
The narrative sense of others Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
How to distinguish a wink from a twitch
How to distinguish a wink from a twitch Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source