Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i
Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i What does it mean to be rich? This paper explores prosperity from the perspective not of material…
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali This article explores the relationship between religiosity and prosperity through a particular ethnographic case from Mali and interrogates…
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman This article aims to problematize the well-rehearsed argument that the rise of the neoliberal tide has…
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia The paper explores contemporary practices of value multiplication among Muslims in Indonesia, paying particular attention to the rise to public prominence…
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species This essay explores experiences that lie ambiguously between the inchoate, the intuitive, and the…
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic…
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament—a return to a…
Alternate modes of prosperity
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“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria
“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria This article explores the ways in which Ramadan charity and almsgiving in Aleppo before the current…
#MeToo: #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice
#MeToo: #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice This Shortcuts section engages the debate on whether the #MeToo movement…
Turning to life: A comment
Turning to life: A comment Life is a concept that is commonly encountered in ethnographicl iterature. Most social anthropologists seem happy to live with a broadly uncritical approach to it.…
Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics
Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics Anthropologists working on ethics have emphasized the importance of freedom for the becoming of ethical subjects. While some…
Ethics, self-knowledge, and life taken as a whole
Ethics, self-knowledge, and life taken as a whole What does thinking of “world as a whole, life” entail for ethnography? Would the modification of life with the adjectival everyday— “every…
The possibility of life
The possibility of life In a 2012 critique of John D. Barrow’s The artful universe, I explored the problems inherent in attempting to predict what can andcannothappen—what is and is…
Revisiting “the repugnant other” in the era of Trump
Revisiting “the repugnant other” in the era of Trump Anthropology has long challenged etic characterizations of the contradictory other, highlighting the logics of putatively back- ward subjects. Recent punditry on…
Food-for-words: Sacrificial counterpoint and oracular articulacy in Cuba
Food-for-words: Sacrificial counterpoint and oracular articulacy in Cuba By critically engaging with anthropological theories on sacrifice and religious “mediation,” this article offers a doubly indigenous ethnographic theory of sacrifice and…
Irrationality and speculation in finance
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Popfinance: From the economic man to the Swabian housewife
Popfinance: From the economic man to the Swabian housewife This article is based on my field work on finance seminars and consultancies in Germany, which are part of the financial…
The semi-social mountain: Metapersonhood and political ontology in the Andes
The semi-social mountain: Metapersonhood and political ontology in the Andes This paper debates how Andean mountains become persons with political ontology, a post-humanist orientation that has recently highlighted this phenomenon.…
Therapy of desire
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