The canon and the mushroom: Lenin, sacredness, and the Soviet collapse
The canon and the mushroom: Lenin, sacredness, and the Soviet collapse This essay focuses on a paradoxical transformation that happened within Soviet ideological discourse at the very end of perestroika,…
Recombiant analogism and naturalism
Recombiant analogism and naturalism Comment on Kipnis, Andrew. “Governing the souls of Chinese modernity” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 217–238. Go to Source
Governing the souls of Chinese modernity
Governing the souls of Chinese modernity Philippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality, where interiority…
The limits of “ontology” and the unfinished work of “ideology”
The limits of “ontology” and the unfinished work of “ideology” Comment on Kipnis, Andrew. “Governing the souls of Chinese modernity” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 217–238. Go to…
On dichotomies
On dichotomies Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to Source
“Ella-gguq allamek yuituq/They say the world contains no others, only persons”
“Ella-gguq allamek yuituq/They say the world contains no others, only persons” Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to…
In anthropology, it’s emic all the way down
In anthropology, it’s emic all the way down Response to comments on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to Source
Decentering
Decentering Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to Source
Rules without rulers?
Rules without rulers? Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to Source
An ongoing conversation
An ongoing conversation Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal of…
The elusive bridge
The elusive bridge Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal of…
The original political society (The 2016 Inaugural A. M. Hocart Lecture)
The original political society (The 2016 Inaugural A. M. Hocart Lecture) Even the so-called egalitarian and loosely structured societies known to anthropology, including hunters such as Inuit or Australian Aborigines,…
Beauty in life and in death
Beauty in life and in death Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.”…
The virtues of cosmopolitics
The virtues of cosmopolitics Comment on Sahlins, Marshall. 2017. “The original political society.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 91–128. Go to Source
Contradictions
Contradictions A comment on Kierans, Ciara, and Kirsten Bell. 2017. “Cultivating ambivalence.” Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 23–44. Go to Source
Cultivating ambivalence: Methodological considerations for anthropology
Cultivating ambivalence: Methodological considerations for anthropology Anthropologists’ longstanding ambivalence toward political advocacy has, in recent years, come under sustained fire—a shift that is often framed in terms of the discipline’s…
On jaguars and fish
On jaguars and fish Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal…
Beauty and the beast (The 2011 R. R. Marett Memorial Lecture)
Beauty and the beast (The 2011 R. R. Marett Memorial Lecture) This paper describes the notion of “beauty” as a socially constructed value among the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon…
Violence from beyond
Violence from beyond Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal of…
Of rants, shortcuts, and revolutions
Of rants, shortcuts, and revolutions Go to Source