Godfrey Lienhardt as a skeptic; or, Anthropology as conceptual puzzle-solving
Godfrey Lienhardt as a skeptic; or, Anthropology as conceptual puzzle-solving This article revolves around the observation that ethnographic classics like Godfrey Lienhardt’s Divinity and experience: The religion of the Dinka are…
Action and its parts
Action and its parts Comment on Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell. 2017. The concept of action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil’s political crisis
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil’s political crisis Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for…
Where is the local? Partial biologies, ethnographic sitings
Where is the local? Partial biologies, ethnographic sitings Where is the local for the ethnographer? A challenge facing anthropological interest in “local biologies” is that both biology and locality are…
Context effects
Context effects Comment on Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell. 2017. The concept of action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
What terms to use?
What terms to use? Response to comments on Kipnis, Andrew. “Governing the souls of Chinese modernity” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 217–238. Go to Source
Cyborg political machines: Political brokering and modern political campaigning in Colombia
Cyborg political machines: Political brokering and modern political campaigning in Colombia Colombian professional political consultants couple information technologies and local political brokering to circumvent strict voter privacy regulations that limit…
“Wasting time” the Veratan Way: Conspicuous leisure and the value of waiting in Fiji
“Wasting time” the Veratan Way: Conspicuous leisure and the value of waiting in Fiji This article explores time as a vehicle of values in Fiji through an analysis of abundant…
The virtualism of “capacity building” workshops in indigenous Amazonia: Ethnography in the new middle ground
The virtualism of “capacity building” workshops in indigenous Amazonia: Ethnography in the new middle ground Sustainable development and conservation NGOs in Amazonia often hold workshops in which they task indigenous…
Failing well: Accommodating vices in an ideal Vedic city
Failing well: Accommodating vices in an ideal Vedic city Since the early 1970s, the small town of Mayapur in West Bengal has been home to a multinational Gaudiya Vaishnava community…
Sacred necropolitics
Sacred necropolitics In this meditation, Anya Bernstein and Alexei Yurchak discuss Yurchak’s essay, “The canon and the mushroom: Lenin, sacredness, and Soviet collapse,” which is published in the current issue.…
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