How newness enters the world
How newness enters the world Go to Source
Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah
Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah Seeing landscapes change seems to be an inevitable and ubiquitous experience in times of global warming. Yet, landscape…
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016) Mangu, what Evans-Pritchard translated into English as “witchcraft” and around which he built his landmark ethnography, has disappeared among the South Sudanese…
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande Benge, the famous chicken poison oracle that Evans-Pritchard vividly described in his classic ethnography, subsequently disappeared from Zande…
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia Although some Kakataibo women say that their elders did not know romantic love and that they…
A drum that speaks
A drum that speaks This photographic essay presents material and findings from a documentation project on the gugu (slit drum) carried out in Western Equatoria State of South Sudan between…
The kingdom, the witch, and the general
The kingdom, the witch, and the general In Western Equatoria, South Sudan, witchcraft accusations enable a narrativization of the material processes of predation that undergird the state, in a sphere…
“They consider themselves very different”: Disparate dreams of Zande governance across the South Sudan-Central African Republic borderland
“They consider themselves very different”: Disparate dreams of Zande governance across the South Sudan-Central African Republic borderland This article unpacks the different trajectories of a once-unified Zande people through a…
Tradition, transformation, and charting futures
Tradition, transformation, and charting futures Go to Source
“This kingdom will not be like the kingdom(s) in the era of Gbudue”: On the rebirth of the Azande Kingdom
“This kingdom will not be like the kingdom(s) in the era of Gbudue”: On the rebirth of the Azande Kingdom Colonial rule in Sudan altered kingship and ended the kingdom…
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later Rereading Evans-Prichard’s classic fifty-five years later turned out to be a confusing experience. On the one hand, it confirmed…
Revisiting the Azande
Revisiting the Azande This introduction to a special section, “Revisiting the Azande,” summarizes the historical context and theoretical insights of the classic ethnography Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande,…
Central Asian sociabilities
Central Asian sociabilities Go to Source
Community-building and resilience in Uyghur meshrep in Kazakhstan
Community-building and resilience in Uyghur meshrep in Kazakhstan Go to Source
Them-you-us
Them-you-us Go to Source
The Thirty Boys: The filmmaker’s reflections
The Thirty Boys: The filmmaker’s reflections Go to Source
People who live in glass houses: Author as subject, Subject as author
People who live in glass houses: Author as subject, Subject as author Go to Source
Writing kinship from within
Writing kinship from within Go to Source
“A tradition from our ancestors”: Community and cultural continuity with The Thirty Boys
“A tradition from our ancestors”: Community and cultural continuity with The Thirty Boys Go to Source
Introduction to the Hau film symposium on The Thirty Boys
Introduction to the Hau film symposium on The Thirty Boys Go to Source