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…
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…
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…
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…
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…