The giving palm: Valuing generosity and status through human-plant relations in Omani sung poetry
The giving palm: Valuing generosity and status through human-plant relations in Omani sung poetry Omani poets theorize the value of generosity by distinguishing between two nominally similar events—two instances of…
Two ways of being the Body of Christ: Toward an anthropology of church forms, with reference to Baptist and Roman Catholic polities in Italy
Two ways of being the Body of Christ: Toward an anthropology of church forms, with reference to Baptist and Roman Catholic polities in Italy In this article, an anthropologist and…
The Oka crisis: The power of a woman with a movie camera
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Introduction: A Film Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) by Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Introduction: A Film Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) by Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) Go to Source
Creation stories: Carrying our elders of Indigenous media
Creation stories: Carrying our elders of Indigenous media Go to Source
“Imagination is a tree”: A response to John Galaty
“Imagination is a tree”: A response to John Galaty Go to Source
Reflections on signs and sacrifice: A response to Quincy Amoah
Reflections on signs and sacrifice: A response to Quincy Amoah Go to Source
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him to kill…
The semantics of akisemem: A response to Michael Herzfeld
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Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus
Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus Go to Source
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala This article illustrates the religious formation and subjectivation of a nun through her…
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia Peer monitoring is a common feature of homosocialization among girls in Indonesian Islamic boarding schools. This article examines the…
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka The formation of Catholic seminarians in Sri Lanka is dependent on rigorous prayer and study routines…
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia In this article, I focus on the reentry of Chinese Indonesians into both politics and public religious life in…
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam Focusing on welfare challenges and crises encountered by women in contemporary Vietnam, this…
Spotlight on the liminal dividend
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Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics…
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education From the late 1960s onwards simulation games were adopted by development education programs as an…
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality In the introduction to this special section, I discuss the way in which a focus on pedagogy in ethical practice can provide insights regarding the multifaceted…
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021 I follow here three different prophetic movements in Africa with which I have been closely engaged. I highlight…