Wind, wood, and the entangled life of disasters
Wind, wood, and the entangled life of disasters In October 2018, the storm Vaia hit the Fiemme valley (Italy), causing extensive damage to its forests. As in other catastrophic events…
Witness to a passing: The silent death of local water management and the quiet hand of government
Witness to a passing: The silent death of local water management and the quiet hand of government Water stories told in Kilimanjaro Region, such as Mami Wata narratives conveyed across…
Seeing water: Slow resistance and the material enigma of extractive effects on society and ecology
Seeing water: Slow resistance and the material enigma of extractive effects on society and ecology This article reflects on ten years of ethnographic work investigating concerns about mining industry-produced environmental…
Witnessing environments
Witnessing environments This article offers a conceptual and historical introduction to the significance of witnessing in relationship to environmental questions for the Hau special section “Witnessing Environments.” The articles in…
Nature itself
Nature itself Go to Source
Anthropological overseas ethnographies and the development of Chinese social science
Anthropological overseas ethnographies and the development of Chinese social science Go to Source
Introduction: “Overseas ethnography” and the audiences of academic anthropology in China
Introduction: “Overseas ethnography” and the audiences of academic anthropology in China This essay introduces the translations of two articles by Gao Bingzhong on the topic of “overseas ethnography” in China.…
Enduring waste: Subjects and objects of siege
Enduring waste: Subjects and objects of siege Go to Source
Overseas ethnography and globalized society
Overseas ethnography and globalized society Go to Source
Occupation by other means
Occupation by other means Go to Source
The violence and promise of infrastructural discards
The violence and promise of infrastructural discards Go to Source
The mediation of emotions: On aspects of dispute settlement and violence in Hagen
The mediation of emotions: On aspects of dispute settlement and violence in Hagen This account dates from 1985, originally a companion piece to “Discovering ‘social control’” (1985), but not published…
Waste as weapon, life as resistance
Waste as weapon, life as resistance Go to Source
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep Go to Source
Are the things really burnt?
Are the things really burnt? By looking at the vestiges of the scientific archive destroyed by the fire that reduced Brazil’s National Museum to ruins in September 2018, this essay…
Decolonizing anthropology at a distance: Some thoughts
Decolonizing anthropology at a distance: Some thoughts Through the notions of distance, double critique, and colonial difference, this essay suggests a decolonization through a novel usage of colonial ethnographies. Analyzing…
Is Hagen compensation to Western restitution as gift is to commodity?
Is Hagen compensation to Western restitution as gift is to commodity? Go to Source
Humbling anthropology: Ego reflexivus and White ignorance
Humbling anthropology: Ego reflexivus and White ignorance In this essay, I propose a process of humbling anthropology in order to counter the (re)production of White ignorance. I argue that anthropology’s…
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit? How does anthropology figure?
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit? How does anthropology figure? With Detroit as its principal site, this essay examines the possibility and the hope for developing a decolonial practice…
Caribbean–Mediterranean counterpoint
Caribbean–Mediterranean counterpoint This afterword comments on the articles collected in this special issue dedicated to the counterpoint between the Mediterranean where Fernando Ortiz grew up, and the Caribbean where he…