The politics of the real economy
The politics of the real economy In this special section of Hau (part II), we present four texts that allow us to go further with the objective to provoke the…
Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money: Multiple monies during currency exchange restrictions in Argentina (2011–15)
Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money: Multiple monies during currency exchange restrictions in Argentina (2011–15) This article aims to show that the properties of money are temporally and…
How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance
How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance For most American households today, a college education requires financial planning. Planning can seem like a…
The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure?
The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? What is the source of ethnographic truth? One might just as well ask what is the real economy,…
Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances
Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances This essay seeks to describe the efforts made to portray the “reality of smuggling” in Brazil by analyzing the instruments and the strategies…
Surviving loss and remaking the world: Reflections on the singular universal in a West African setting
Surviving loss and remaking the world: Reflections on the singular universal in a West African setting As an ethnographer, I am obliged to reflect on the philosophical implications of my…
Ordinary possibility, transcendent immanence, and responsive ethics: A philosophical anthropology of the small event
Ordinary possibility, transcendent immanence, and responsive ethics: A philosophical anthropology of the small event Based upon long-term fieldwork among African American families in Los Angeles, this article offers a phenomenological…
Selma’s response: A case for responsive anthropology
Selma’s response: A case for responsive anthropology Analyzing an episode from a family story in World War II, this paper suggests introducing the concept of responsiveness in philosophical anthropology and…
Being open to the world
Being open to the world As the Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka poetically phrased it, human beings are “beings of the far reaches.” Our human condition is, in other words, conditioned…
From moral facts to human finitude: On the problem of freedom in the anthropology of ethics
From moral facts to human finitude: On the problem of freedom in the anthropology of ethics The ethical turn in anthropology was to a large extent premised on a decisive…
Beyond ethics: Conscience, pacifism, and the political in wartime Britain
Beyond ethics: Conscience, pacifism, and the political in wartime Britain The central intervention of this article concerns the contingency of the relationship between ethics and politics. The empirical focus is…
Divining, testing, and the problem of accountability
Divining, testing, and the problem of accountability Rejoinder to Whyte, Sue Reynolds, Michael Whyte, and David Kyanddondo. 2018. “Technologies of inquiry: HIV tests and divination.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory…
Toward a new humanism: An approach from philosophical anthropology
Toward a new humanism: An approach from philosophical anthropology In this introduction to the special section, we revisit the case of humanism, including some challenges to its outworn and problematic…
Electoral ripples: The social life of lies and mistrust in an Indian village election
Electoral ripples: The social life of lies and mistrust in an Indian village election Anthropologists who study elections tend to restrict their analysis to the run-up to and conduct of…
One world anthropology
One world anthropology Anthropology is a philosophical inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of life in the one world we all inhabit. That this world is indeed one is a…
The real ontological challenge
The real ontological challenge Rejoinder to Willerslev, Rane, and Christian Suhr. 2018. “Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation.” Hau: Journal of…
God is other(s): Anthropological pietism and the beings of metamorphosis
God is other(s): Anthropological pietism and the beings of metamorphosis Rejoinder to Willerslev, Rane, and Christian Suhr. 2018. “Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the…
Faith in anthropology
Faith in anthropology Response to rejoinders to Willerslev, Rane, and Christian Suhr. 2018 “Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation.” Hau: Journal…
The absence of the divine
The absence of the divine Rejoinder to Willerslev, Rane, and Christian Suhr. 2018. “Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation.” Hau: Journal…
Technologies of inquiry: HIV tests and divination
Technologies of inquiry: HIV tests and divination HIV testing and divination are both performances that offer access to privileged knowledge about grave problems. In comparing this relatively new technology with…