A minimalist ontology, with other people in it
A minimalist ontology, with other people in it Response to rejoinder to Keane, Webb. 2018. “Perspectives on affordances, or the anthropologically real.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1): 27–38…
Back to the future with the theory of affordances
Back to the future with the theory of affordances Rejoinder to Keane, Webb. 2018. “Perspectives on affordances, or the anthropologically real.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1): 27–38 Go…
Perspectives on affordances, or the anthropologically real: The 2018 Daryll Forde Lecture
Perspectives on affordances, or the anthropologically real: The 2018 Daryll Forde Lecture Anthropology is defined by the vast scope of its concerns. We often forget to ask, however, what makes…
Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation
Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation Anthropological insights are not produced or constructed through reasoned discourse alone. Often they appear to…
Are anthropologists monsters? An Andean dystopian critique of extractivist ethnography and Anglophone-centric anthropology
Are anthropologists monsters? An Andean dystopian critique of extractivist ethnography and Anglophone-centric anthropology The article departs from an ethnographic experience involving the kharisiri, a dystopian, fat-stealing monster of the Bolivian…
Decomposing numbers
Decomposing numbers Rejoinder to Vilaça, Aparecida. 2018, “The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia.” Hau: Journal of Ethographic Theory 8 (1): 6–19 Go to…
Maths lessons from Amazonia
Maths lessons from Amazonia Rejoinder to Vilaça, Aparecida. 2018. “The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1): 6–19.…
The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia: The Inaugural Claude Lévi-Strauss lecture
The devil and the hidden life of numbers: Translations and transformations in Amazonia: The Inaugural Claude Lévi-Strauss lecture The notion of “aberrant derivations,” coined by Lévi-Strauss in The origin of…
Humanism
Humanism This essay offers a brief reflection on the problem of death as it has been elaborated within certain strands of humanist thought. In their attempts to come to grips…
Beginnings
Beginnings Go to Source
Magic, an appreciation
Magic, an appreciation Response to comments on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Go to Source
Gambling with the Gift: A preface to Marcel Mauss’ “Wette, wedding”
Gambling with the Gift: A preface to Marcel Mauss’ “Wette, wedding” This short preface situates Marcel Mauss’ “Wette, wedding”, a talk that Marcel Mauss gave at the Société d’histoires du…
Christmas: An anthropological lens
Christmas: An anthropological lens Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a…
Wette, wedding
Wette, wedding The hereby accomplished publication of a short summary of a talk that Marcel Mauss gave at the Société d’histoires du droit on May 10, 1928, is a continuation…
Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of view
Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of view This article is a reprint of an essay originally published as “Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of…
Remapping “magic”: Extending the terrain of an already capacious category
Remapping “magic”: Extending the terrain of an already capacious category Editor’s preface to the Hau Book Symposium on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University…
Giving the question away
Giving the question away Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Go to Source
The enhancement of enchantments in Melanesia
The enhancement of enchantments in Melanesia Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Go to Source
Rethinking anthropology’s tricks of the trade: From a comparative anthropology to an anthropology of comparison
Rethinking anthropology’s tricks of the trade: From a comparative anthropology to an anthropology of comparison Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of…
Staging magic
Staging magic Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Go to Source