Triangulation: An imperial power device
Triangulation: An imperial power device Drawing on Katherine Verdery’s Transylvanian villagers and fieldwork in Latvia, this article discusses triangulation as an imperial power device whereby one actor makes an alliance…
Being Shia in Bangladesh: The intersectionality of ethnicity, language, and transnational connectivity
Being Shia in Bangladesh: The intersectionality of ethnicity, language, and transnational connectivity This article attempts to delineate what it means to be Shia in relation to home-making in Sunni-majority Bangladeshi…
Desiring home: A long-term ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon
Desiring home: A long-term ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon The recent literature on home has focused on the importance of imagination and performativity in the making of places. In…
“I feel like we skipped a social class”: The role of social class in the hijra of Dutch and Flemish Muslim women to Morocco
“I feel like we skipped a social class”: The role of social class in the hijra of Dutch and Flemish Muslim women to Morocco This article examines the role of…
Erotic apprehension in Syrian and German encounters
Erotic apprehension in Syrian and German encounters The presence of new arrivals from the global South has provoked shifts in Stimmungen (collective moods) and a political backlash against social incorporation…
Law as ritual: Evoking an ideal order
Law as ritual: Evoking an ideal order In the modern state most laws enshrine practical social norms in a way that everyone can be aware of. Laws take a legalistic…
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil.…
Diaspora as home: The global community of Ahmadiyya Muslims
Diaspora as home: The global community of Ahmadiyya Muslims The spiritual home of Ahmadiyya Muslims and physical home of their leader has moved from India to Pakistan to London in…
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2)
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2) This is the introduction to the second part of a special section that spans two issues of Hau…
Defetishizing money: Perspectives from economic anthropology: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 20, 2023
Defetishizing money: Perspectives from economic anthropology: Gudeman Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 20, 2023 Following up on Steve Gudeman’s insight that economic categories are fundamentally cultural, this lecture juxtaposes different…
Movements and margins
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On Gillian Gillison’s primal aggression
On Gillian Gillison’s primal aggression Go to Source
Gillison’s gift
Gillison’s gift Go to Source
“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo
“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo Go to Source
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women Go to Source
Litany of ghosts
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Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person
Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person Go to Source
Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America
Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America Go to Source
Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness
Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness Go to Source
Portrayal of the vital world of a person living with Alzheimer’s, drawing on a close and intimate case
Portrayal of the vital world of a person living with Alzheimer’s, drawing on a close and intimate case Go to Source