A “normal” day under authoritarian rule: An ethnographic account of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule: An ethnographic account of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict This article examines how a “normal” day passes under a conflicted and authoritarian governmentality in an ethnically…
Balancing acts and worldviews
Balancing acts and worldviews Go to Source
The ruses of Amerindian art: A reply
The ruses of Amerindian art: A reply Go to Source
Objects and images: A medievalist’s response to Carlos Fausto’s Art effects
Objects and images: A medievalist’s response to Carlos Fausto’s Art effects Go to Source
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images Go to Source
Action and seduction
Action and seduction Go to Source
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico: Bridging Indigenous knowledge and archaeology
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico: Bridging Indigenous knowledge and archaeology This article examines the possible roles of exceptionally preserved clay…
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology This article explores a Mesoamerican topology based on the figure of the fold. It argues that the operation of…
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art Go to Source
But is it art?
But is it art? Go to Source
Rawa-Nore gifting
Rawa-Nore gifting This article comprises a rethinking of Mauss’s The gift, reciprocity, and exchange theory in anthropology, using theories of chaos and complexity to make sense of the author’s ethnographic data…
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research I examine my dual role as artist and ethnographer in the creation of artworks including mixed-media paintings and installations. Drawing from…
Meeting grounds: Art and anthropology in the Everglades
Meeting grounds: Art and anthropology in the Everglades This article considers issues raised while working at the intersection of anthropology and visual art in Everglades National Park and during the…
Strategic commodification: The object biography of Tibetan thangka paintings in contemporary China
Strategic commodification: The object biography of Tibetan thangka paintings in contemporary China This article focuses on Tibetan thangka and thangka painters in Amdo Rebgong (Qinghai, China), who are caught between…
Body art: Living in and leaving the body behind
Body art: Living in and leaving the body behind Body painting uses a three-dimensional living canvas. While a widespread activity that can be characterized as a creative cultural scene, it…
The performative photograph: A poietic approach to visual ethnography in a French banlieue
The performative photograph: A poietic approach to visual ethnography in a French banlieue By reexamining the empirical relationship between ethnography and photography, this article explores the phenomenology of photographic experiences…
“By name and no other”: The COVID masks portrait project
“By name and no other”: The COVID masks portrait project “‘By Name and No Other’: The COVID masks portrait project” is a series of images of the photographer’s family made…
Anthro-artists: Anthropologists as makers and creatives
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Raw fear in Hong Kong
Raw fear in Hong Kong This article rethinks the politics of fear through the researcher’s ethnography in Hong Kong. Fear is often explored as a tool of manipulation that disempowers…
Developing indifference: Youth, place-making and belonging in a transforming urban China
Developing indifference: Youth, place-making and belonging in a transforming urban China This article examines the social impacts of urban change among a generation of people for whom it is the…