The devil’s in the detail: Consequences, intent, and moral futures in anthropology
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Warning against and experimenting with morality
Warning against and experimenting with morality Go to Source
Ethics, morality, and moralizing in anthropological research
Ethics, morality, and moralizing in anthropological research In response to papers by Langlitz on the position of the devil’s advocate and Van Dinther on morality and advocacy, I try to…
Volunteering for the environment in China: The urban as a terrain of problematization
Volunteering for the environment in China: The urban as a terrain of problematization This contribution argues that Aihwa Ong’s approach to the urban as problem-space is a powerful and underutilized…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
The ethnography of the global after globalization This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and…
Destruction or dialectics: Other iconoclasms and the new heritage culture industry
Destruction or dialectics: Other iconoclasms and the new heritage culture industry This essay examines Zoë Strother’s efforts to historicize recent debates about the repatriation of cultural heritage while also situating…
Devil’s advocate: Sketch of an amoral anthropology
Devil’s advocate: Sketch of an amoral anthropology This essay polemicizes against contemporary anthropology’s ubiquitous moralism and its demand for engagement. It does so by trying on the glasses of evolutionary…
Iconoclasms as sites for the production of knowledge
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Rising tides and anthropological morals
Rising tides and anthropological morals Drawing on debates in southern African anthropology, I suggest that where knowledge claims themselves are in question, comparison, uncertainty, and play may be critical in…
Moral anthropology: A critique of criticism
Moral anthropology: A critique of criticism The anthropology of morality continues to be met with resistance. Opposition rests on the perception that one cannot study morals without moralizing or advocating…
Further thoughts on iconoclasm
Further thoughts on iconoclasm Inspired by the thoughts of Zoë Strother, in this short piece I rethink my previous work on iconoclasm in West Africa, saluting her invitation to consider…
Iconoclasm and the restitution of African cultural heritage What role for the communities of owners?
Iconoclasm and the restitution of African cultural heritage What role for the communities of owners? Go to Source
Iconoclasm and restitution: Between denial and cultural realism
Iconoclasm and restitution: Between denial and cultural realism The destruction or loss of objects belonging to African cultural heritage, usually the result of historical antecedents, has had a serious impact…
Passions and pathogens: Notes on the uncertainty of heritage
Passions and pathogens: Notes on the uncertainty of heritage This response to Zoë Strother’s “Iconoclasms in Africa,” specifically its attention to the historical entanglement of museums and iconoclasm, reflects on…
The Wambɲug emblem of the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny and its implications for contemporary iconoclasm in Côte d’Ivoire
The Wambɲug emblem of the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny and its implications for contemporary iconoclasm in Côte d’Ivoire The present reflections are intended as a contribution to the theme of the…
“I was at the right place at the right time”: The neglected role of happenstance in the lives of people and institutions
“I was at the right place at the right time”: The neglected role of happenstance in the lives of people and institutions This paper presents coproduced ethnographic material concerning the…
The ontological antinomy: Food, surfaces, and transcendence in the village of Awim, Papua New Guinea
The ontological antinomy: Food, surfaces, and transcendence in the village of Awim, Papua New Guinea In anthropology, antinomy has generally been conceived negatively, metaphorically, and within the limits of epistemology…
Iconoclasm and the restitution debate
Iconoclasm and the restitution debate Go to Source
Invaluable enmeshments in pedagogy: An autoethnography of an anthropologist in the classroom
Invaluable enmeshments in pedagogy: An autoethnography of an anthropologist in the classroom This article explores the enmeshments and vulnerabilities that emerge in undergraduate courses on gender and sexuality. In these…
Iconoclasms in Africa: Implications for the debate on restitution of cultural heritage
Iconoclasms in Africa: Implications for the debate on restitution of cultural heritage This article demonstrates that a long history of iconoclastic struggles exists in numerous countries of sub-Saharan Africa and…