“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
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 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
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.”…
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…