The logic of magic: Reading Wittgenstein’s remarks on Frazer’s The golden bough
The logic of magic: Reading Wittgenstein’s remarks on Frazer’s The golden bough This article centers on a close reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s The golden bough, showing how…
Economy, emulation, and equality: Sociogenesis in the postsocialist capitalocene: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 21, 2022
Economy, emulation, and equality: Sociogenesis in the postsocialist capitalocene: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 21, 2022 Economy and emulation are freighted concepts. They draw attention to universal phenomena, the…
Magic, metaphysics, and methods
Magic, metaphysics, and methods Go to Source
Reflections on Unwritten Letters and the neorealism of contingency
Reflections on Unwritten Letters and the neorealism of contingency Go to Source
Reflections on the healing power of collaborative filmmaking: The case of Unwritten Letters
Reflections on the healing power of collaborative filmmaking: The case of Unwritten Letters Go to Source
Relational filmmaking: Reflections in response to comments on Unwritten Letters
Relational filmmaking: Reflections in response to comments on Unwritten Letters Go to Source
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…