Time, grief, and hope on film
Time, grief, and hope on film Go to Source
Catharsis after the hangover: A focus on Unwritten Letters
Catharsis after the hangover: A focus on Unwritten Letters Go to Source
At the track: Gambling on the science of anthropology
At the track: Gambling on the science of anthropology Go to Source
Untamed Amazonia: Comments on an enchanted book
Untamed Amazonia: Comments on an enchanted book Go to Source
Life-giving and death-dealing powers
Life-giving and death-dealing powers Go to Source
Brotherhood at times of war: Reviewing the film Unwritten Letters
Brotherhood at times of war: Reviewing the film Unwritten Letters Go to Source
Filming as being, images as evidence
Filming as being, images as evidence When is film taken as evidence of the past and of truths in the world and when does the content become less significant than…
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…