The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea I analyze the power of things to direct the actions and shape the belief of…
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology Anthropological studies of Pentecostal and evangelical faith practices and experiences frequently reveal that followers struggle…
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu This article examines how the invisible spiritual world takes material form in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Drawing…
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements Instead of reproducing an assumed opposition between immaterial and material religious elements to lived religious worlds, this special section approaches the issue of…
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names It is argued that in the case of the Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil, with…
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon Difficulties in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge within Amazonian societies impact collective…
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati In this study, I explore the role and relationship of material and immaterial entities as constituents of a religious…
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia Melanesia in the 1970s was the scene of an enormous religious transformation. Across the region, charismatic religiosity engulfed innumerable communities,…
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola)
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola) Xinguilamento is an Angolan ritual based on possession by ilundu spirits. Ilundu are considered to be hereditary illnesses transmitted…
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina In the upland indigenous villages of Northwestern Andean Argentina, the ethnography of ritual offerings to the Pachamama (Mother Earth)…
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago Through two stories collected among residents of the Ilhabela archipelago during my PhD fieldwork on how to…
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations Go to Source
Substances and relationalities
Substances and relationalities Go to Source
Time and movement: A response to my readers
Time and movement: A response to my readers Go to Source
Apocalyptic everyday
Apocalyptic everyday Go to Source
At home among concepts on the chars
At home among concepts on the chars Go to Source
Unconscious entrainments
Unconscious entrainments Go to Source
The joint-architecture of the char
The joint-architecture of the char Go to Source
Mapping memory and movement: Absences, interstices, erosions
Mapping memory and movement: Absences, interstices, erosions Go to Source
The explosion of the mirror: Uneasy reflections on fieldwork
The explosion of the mirror: Uneasy reflections on fieldwork The aim of this article is to make visible the mechanisms of data production with which we elaborate our scientific production.…