Endangered languages and porous selves
Endangered languages and porous selves Go to Source
Risky research in a rainforest
Risky research in a rainforest Go to Source
The mystery of the dying language
The mystery of the dying language Go to Source
Life is queer: Queer is life?
Life is queer: Queer is life? Go to Source
Love: An ethnographic inquiry into queer, Christian relationships in Kenya
Love: An ethnographic inquiry into queer, Christian relationships in Kenya Go to Source
Engaging anthropology
Engaging anthropology Go to Source
Sex as identity or as practice?
Sex as identity or as practice? Go to Source
Normative anti-antinormativity?
Normative anti-antinormativity? Go to Source
By means of squirrels and eggs: Kinship and mutual recognition among the Khmu Yuan of Northern Laos
By means of squirrels and eggs: Kinship and mutual recognition among the Khmu Yuan of Northern Laos This article explores the relevance of an ostensibly unpretentious gift exchange of squirrels…
Flores de Mayo in Rehovot: Ritual and rhetorical strategies of Filipinos’ presence in Israel
Flores de Mayo in Rehovot: Ritual and rhetorical strategies of Filipinos’ presence in Israel A Catholic Filipino community in Rehovot, Israel, celebrates the traditional feast of Flores de Mayo every…
The selfie speaks a thousand words: Negotiating masculinity, intimacy, and sameness through the photograph in Pune
The selfie speaks a thousand words: Negotiating masculinity, intimacy, and sameness through the photograph in Pune While the selfie has come to symbolize notions of selfhood in the age of…
The slip of a philosopher and the sinking of the ship: Translation, protest, and the Iranian travails of learned politics
The slip of a philosopher and the sinking of the ship: Translation, protest, and the Iranian travails of learned politics This article examines the politics of translation in Iran in…
Queerly Kenyan: On the political economy of queer possibilities
Queerly Kenyan: On the political economy of queer possibilities Go to Source
Epistemophilic obsessions: Espionage, secrets, and the ethnographer’s will to know
Epistemophilic obsessions: Espionage, secrets, and the ethnographer’s will to know As a young ethnographer, I was weirdly obsessed with closed doors and what was going on behind them. To some…
Kufala! Translating witchcraft in an Angolan–Chinese labor dispute
Kufala! Translating witchcraft in an Angolan–Chinese labor dispute Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a Chinese state-owned enterprise brought to Angola in the postwar reconstruction boom, this article devotes sustained attention…
“Please call my daughter”: Ethical practice in dementia care as an art of dwelling
“Please call my daughter”: Ethical practice in dementia care as an art of dwelling This article aims to extend the current understanding of ethical practice within a dementia context, in…
A tree of many lives: Vegetal teleontologies in West Papua
A tree of many lives: Vegetal teleontologies in West Papua In this article, I analyze the ontology of the African oil palm among indigenous Marind communities in Merauke, West Papua.…
Miracle, magic, or science: Ritual bathing in modern India
Miracle, magic, or science: Ritual bathing in modern India The paper addresses ritual and quotidian aspects of bathing in thermal springs at Bakreswar, a Hindu pilgrimage site in India. Ascetics,…
On gambling, divination, and religion
On gambling, divination, and religion This comment on Levy-Bruhl’s essay on gambling has three parts. The first raises some linguistic and analytical questions and identifies some deficiencies in the author’s…
Gambling; or, The art of exploiting chance to nullify it
Gambling; or, The art of exploiting chance to nullify it For Lévy-Bruhl, “primitive mentality” can shed light on the “passion” that drives the casino player, gambler, or financial speculator to…