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
Irrationality and speculation in finance Go to Source
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
Therapy of desire Go to Source
Without impunity
Without impunity Go to Source
Slinging hash: Can activists and scholars play “rough music” on a one-string violin?
Slinging hash: Can activists and scholars play “rough music” on a one-string violin? Go to Source
#MeToo is nowhere near enough
#MeToo is nowhere near enough Go to Source
#MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice
#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 is…
The problem of affinity in Amazonia
The problem of affinity in Amazonia Go to Source
Oedipus and Job in West African religion: The 1956 Frazer Lecture
Oedipus and Job in West African religion: The 1956 Frazer Lecture Go to Source
Destiny in hindsight: Impotentiality and intentional action in contemporary Yemen
Destiny in hindsight: Impotentiality and intentional action in contemporary Yemen Zaydis are a Shiite sect, widespread in Highland Yemen, that upholds a doctrine of free will and human accountability. However,…