Making workers real: Regulatory spotlights and documentary stepping-stones on a South African border farm
Making workers real: Regulatory spotlights and documentary stepping-stones on a South African border farm Documents are central to the infrastructure through which formal workforces are constituted. They thus offer a…
Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa
Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa The real economy as a concept has taken root not only in highly developed economies but also in those characterized by “the rapid growth…
The live act of business and the culture of realization
The live act of business and the culture of realization The concept of reality saturates today’s business curriculum. Educational methods that emphasize an experiential approach to business reality, practical training…
A political anthropology of finance: Profits, states and cultures in cross-border investment in Shanghai
A political anthropology of finance: Profits, states and cultures in cross-border investment in Shanghai Based on participant observation with financial professionals working for a mergers and acquisitions consultancy company in…
How to build a book: Notes from an editorial bricoleuse
How to build a book: Notes from an editorial bricoleuse This piece offers an editor’s reflections on the ethos and craft of writing. General suggestions, words of encouragement, and detailed…
Gravity fixes: Habituating to the human on Mars and Island Three
Gravity fixes: Habituating to the human on Mars and Island Three What shifts might emerge in theorizations of and debates over “the human”—as a historically specific entity or as nominating…
Economies of obligation: Patronage as relational wealth in Bolivian gold mining
Economies of obligation: Patronage as relational wealth in Bolivian gold mining Recent scholarship in anthropology offers critical attention to inequality as a constitutive feature of social life to which specific…
“Catch the word”: Violated contracts and prophetic confirmation in African American Pentecostalism
“Catch the word”: Violated contracts and prophetic confirmation in African American Pentecostalism The image of a violated social contract has long held a distinctive place in African American Christian thought…
Human rights for nonhumans?
Human rights for nonhumans? The legal grounds for the self-determination processes of two different indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazonia reveal how the social relationships they establish with nonhumans enable them…
The real in the real economy
The real in the real economy Over the last few decades, and especially following the 2008 crisis and the current period of turbulence and uncertainty, “the real economy” has been…
The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s refugee crisis
The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s refugee crisis This article deals with the German concept of Stimmung, which does not allow a translation into the English…
Philia and phagia: Thinking with Stimmungswechsel through the refugee crisis in Greece
Philia and phagia: Thinking with Stimmungswechsel through the refugee crisis in Greece Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. “The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s…
What does Stimmung mean?
What does Stimmung mean? Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. “The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s refugee crisis.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7…
Do Germans smell like a rose? Phagia, philia, phobia
Do Germans smell like a rose? Phagia, philia, phobia Response to comments on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem- Fachandi. 2017. “The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s…
Whose moods? Anthropologists in a bubble
Whose moods? Anthropologists in a bubble Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. “The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany’s refugee crisis.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic…
Fetishistic causation (The 2017 Stirling Lecture)
Fetishistic causation (The 2017 Stirling Lecture) In this lecture I argue that anthropology can grasp the cultural peculiarity of modernity by critically scrutinizing its foundational categories of “economy” and “technology”…
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry (The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture)
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry (The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture) Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has grown to…
Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: A response to the Las Vegas shooting
Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: A response to the Las Vegas shooting This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system…
Why do we read the classics?
Why do we read the classics? Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in…
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