Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women: Kurdish women’s funerals in Northern Kurdistan/Turkey
Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women: Kurdish women’s funerals in Northern Kurdistan/Turkey The Turkish state strictly bans funerals and other forms of public mourning for Kurdish guerrillas, considering them to…
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic…
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality This article revolves around the theoretical and ethnographic experiences of an ongoing anthropological study with contemporary Aymara families about how “education by attention”…
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes In the Quechua community of Coipasi (Bolivia) relations between the living and the dead (almas—souls) swing between excess and containment, remembrance and…
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference In this article I discuss the ways in which the Turkish state uses Islam as a weapon to delegitimize and render unnecessary Kurdish distinctiveness and…
Spreading whose word? Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques
Spreading whose word? Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques In this article, I explore the role of religious discourses and practices in the diasporic Kurdish-Turkish conflict and investigate…
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey This article discusses the transformative potential of Turkey’s pro-democracy movement which has emerged out of a long history of Kurdish political struggle. It looks at…
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
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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…