Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable
Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable This article examines the work survivors of sexual violence and abuse do to assert their credibility and the labor, in…
The tone of justice: Voicing the perpetrator-as-victim in sexual assault cases
The tone of justice: Voicing the perpetrator-as-victim in sexual assault cases Social and legal disputes around sexual violence commonly involve a pattern in which those alleged to have committed violence…
Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential
Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential Go to Source
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity Go to Source
Multimodal feminist testimony: On ambiguity, embodiment, and evidence in Guinea
Multimodal feminist testimony: On ambiguity, embodiment, and evidence in Guinea Political subjectivities that are produced outside the realm of formal politics and activism often go unnoticed in scholarly analyses. This…
Introduction: Evidence, ambiguity, and expression in Big Mouth
Introduction: Evidence, ambiguity, and expression in Big Mouth This Forum brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who reflect with us about our film-in-progress, Big Mouth, about defamation, sexual violence,…
Failures of being: The Christian promise of acceptance in Sinja, Nepal
Failures of being: The Christian promise of acceptance in Sinja, Nepal “Being” can be a heavy burden to carry in Sinja, Nepal. The lack of a given self comparable to…
“Again you will plant vineyards”: Prophecy, Jewish settlement, and temporal dissonance in the occupied West Bank
“Again you will plant vineyards”: Prophecy, Jewish settlement, and temporal dissonance in the occupied West Bank Studies of prophecy in the context of Judaism have predominantly attended to how messianic…
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation: Negotiating promises and pitfalls in interwoven projects of judicial truth-telling and documentary filmmaking
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation: Negotiating promises and pitfalls in interwoven projects of judicial truth-telling and documentary filmmaking The contested evidentiary status and supposed ambiguity of a survivor’s…
Deflecting responsibility: Spirits in Southeast Asia and “systems” in Western modernity
Deflecting responsibility: Spirits in Southeast Asia and “systems” in Western modernity While studies of responsibility have been concerned with the ways responsibility is traced to accountable human persons or institutions,…
In defense of the heart: An Amazonian politics of respect
In defense of the heart: An Amazonian politics of respect The concept of defense-respect is elaborated here as a cornerstone of Urarina ethics and politics and an alternative to the…
Living in a world of others: A politics of grace and favors in a Romanian mahala
Living in a world of others: A politics of grace and favors in a Romanian mahala The phrase “Roma politics” has come to designate several topics, such as the movement…
Amazonia by steam: Vicissitudes of a geometric revolution
Amazonia by steam: Vicissitudes of a geometric revolution In the 1890s, at the height of the rubber boom, steamboats dominate the rivers of Bolivian Amazonia. The technophile discourse of the…
Not “multiple ontologies” but ontic capaciousness: Radical alterity after the ontological turn
Not “multiple ontologies” but ontic capaciousness: Radical alterity after the ontological turn This essay articulates a framework for understanding radical alterity in the aftermath of the abandonment of strong claims…
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good governance, translation and word coinage in Thailand
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good governance, translation and word coinage in Thailand This article explores the emergence and transformation of the concept of good governance in contemporary Thailand after…
From reasons of state to individual interest: Morality, power and the political category
From reasons of state to individual interest: Morality, power and the political category This article argues that political anthropology has never had a version of the substantivist/formalist debate that shaped…
From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy: The emergence of a “political” vocabulary among the Sora of Tribal India
From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy: The emergence of a “political” vocabulary among the Sora of Tribal India The Sora language reveals a sharp division between the vocabulary of command…
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era People marching in the streets in Burma in 1988, infuriated by twenty-six years of military dictatorship, demanded the return…
Northwest African perspectives on the concept of the state
Northwest African perspectives on the concept of the state The state of most current political anthropology tends to be the modern nation-state, and relatively few works address questions posed by…
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine This article takes up the loaded topic of “Russia in the world of Ukraine.” Now an object of official Russia’s aggressive attention, contemporary…