Is Mainland China the source of all of Hong Kong’s problems?
Is Mainland China the source of all of Hong Kong’s problems? In the protest movement in Hong Kong in 2019, the growing influence of Mainland China was perceived to be…
Living between incongruous worlds in Hong Kong
Living between incongruous worlds in Hong Kong This article explores the uneasy position of Mainlanders within and in relation to the Anti-Extradition Movement amid rising anti-Mainland sentiment in Hong Kong.…
Infrastructure and its discontent: Structures of feeling in the age of Hong Kong-China dis/connection
Infrastructure and its discontent: Structures of feeling in the age of Hong Kong-China dis/connection This essay reveals that infrastructure, both transit and legal, not only facilitates exchanges across distance and…
On peace, self-love, and humanism
On peace, self-love, and humanism Go to Source
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions Go to Source
Anthropology and world peace
Anthropology and world peace The pursuit of world peace has long been part of the telos of modern anthropology, although this may not be particularly obvious in the discipline’s teaching…
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture Go to Source
Racial burdens, translations, and chance
Racial burdens, translations, and chance Go to Source
Review of Jens Kjaerulff. “Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre”
Review of Jens Kjaerulff. “Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre” Go to Source
Hesiod’s Theogony and analogist cosmogonies
Hesiod’s Theogony and analogist cosmogonies Philippe Descola’s work on ontologies has created new possibilities for exploring the rich connections between creation myths and their ontological underpinnings. This has proven fruitful…
Ghost twitter in Indigenous Australia: Sentience, agency, and ontological difference
Ghost twitter in Indigenous Australia: Sentience, agency, and ontological difference By distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency we begin to take crucial analytical steps to consider ontological and cosmological…
Constructing cosmoscapes: Cosmological currents in conversation and contestation in contemporary Bolivia
Constructing cosmoscapes: Cosmological currents in conversation and contestation in contemporary Bolivia This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to compose a shifting “cosmoscape” in Kaata,…
Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre
Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre A scholarship on “time” has emerged that pays attention to the ways contemporary economic life and information technology…
A timely encounter and a loss
A timely encounter and a loss Go to Source
Italy as a national luxury brand for Chinese consumers: Global promotion and identity discontent
Italy as a national luxury brand for Chinese consumers: Global promotion and identity discontent Italy has emerged as a leading producer of luxury goods on the international stage, while China…
The alienating inalienable: Rethinking Annette Weiner’s concept of inalienable wealth through Japan’s “sleeping kimono”
The alienating inalienable: Rethinking Annette Weiner’s concept of inalienable wealth through Japan’s “sleeping kimono” Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this article focuses on collections of gifted…
Free AccessNobodies and somebodies: Power, bureaucracy, and citizenship in a London rehousing hub
Free AccessNobodies and somebodies: Power, bureaucracy, and citizenship in a London rehousing hub This article draws on ethnographic research to examine the bureaucratic matrix of temporal, material, and legal scales…
The spaces of luxury in global cities: The consumption and appropriation of São Paulo’s upscale malls by the elite and the poor
The spaces of luxury in global cities: The consumption and appropriation of São Paulo’s upscale malls by the elite and the poor According to Arjun Appadurai (1996), global flows are…
Experiencing presence: An interactive model of perception
Experiencing presence: An interactive model of perception This essay brings literature in experimental psychology and visual perception into conversation with psychological anthropology to propose a new theory of presence. We…
“A mad exuberance”: The globalization of luxury
“A mad exuberance”: The globalization of luxury The issue of the circulation of luxury commodities and of the evolution through which it is going becomes fully meaningful when addressed within…