In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 449-465, December 2024. The article provides an answer to fundamental questions of what qualifies…
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 505-522, December 2024. Peter Geschiere’s most recent writings have come to attend,…
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 486-504, December 2024. In southeastern Nigeria, Igbo-speaking people commonly assert that “a debt…
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 428-448, December 2024. Witchcraft has been described as knowledge that resists…
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article traces the intellectual trajectory of the anthropologist and Africanist Peter Geschiere,…
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this paper I argue that the method of participant observation is as…
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Coming as a collection of observations from the field, I used…
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa) Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Toponymic struggles are about forms of civic belonging that street names…
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Undertaking fieldwork in a remote location with limited health care and…
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Energy-ethnographies of ‘closed’ workplaces detail practices for achieving robust, authentic research. However,…
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The idea of a possible collapse of thermo-industrial societies became more prominent during…
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to…
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse Ethnography, Ahead of Print. How do things shift shape - both physically and metaphorically - as they transition across spaces and…
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Heritage and security are distinct research topics in anthropology, but some of their…
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article contributes to ongoing conversations on digital ethnography as a methodological approach that in the last two decades…
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of guided tours in Svalbard, in this article I explore how…
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Despite the importance of both gender and elites in contemporary social life, few empirical works examine gender…
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article proposes a systematization of the within, between and beyond sites through which ethnographic field-making takes shape. It draws…
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Batswana (People of Botswana) traditionally celebrate the end of seasons with dikopelo musical performances. This paper discusses Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela’s…
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In France today, an increasing number of people consider themselves to be “survivalists.” Presuming…