Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India
Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India Defined as work undertaken by the body on oneself or others, bodywork has been understood as a key aspect…
Spatializing culture: Baithaks and the surviving classical music scene in Pakistan
Spatializing culture: Baithaks and the surviving classical music scene in Pakistan Adopting an inter/transdisciplinary approach, this article brings together ethnography and an ethnomusicological “ecology model”—studying music in relation to the…
Successful aging’s global moment: Visions and dilemmas of aging well
Successful aging’s global moment: Visions and dilemmas of aging well Go to Source
Creativity, courage, and care
Creativity, courage, and care Go to Source
Response
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Reading between the bricks
Reading between the bricks Go to Source
The invention of Inventing an African alphabet: Notes on the backstage of the production of anthropological knowledge
The invention of Inventing an African alphabet: Notes on the backstage of the production of anthropological knowledge Go to Source
Writing in the DRC: The creation of Mandombe, an African alphabet
Writing in the DRC: The creation of Mandombe, an African alphabet Go to Source
A life worth telling?
A life worth telling? Go to Source
Religious and scientific aspects of Mandombe
Religious and scientific aspects of Mandombe Go to Source
Ephemeral utopia: Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey
Ephemeral utopia: Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey This article examines the flux and reflux of commitment to jihad among immigrants to Syria. Contrary to…
Android existence: The affect of artificial vitality
Android existence: The affect of artificial vitality This article investigates the affective vitality of the technical in Japanese android-making through the creation of the android Alter and its artistic performance…
As through a glass darkly: Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ
As through a glass darkly: Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ Standard Euro-American ideas of sincerity revolve around an idea of the transparent alignment of one’s outer acts with…
How newness enters the world
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Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah
Seeing otherwise: Landscape change and sensory experience in the West African savannah Seeing landscapes change seems to be an inevitable and ubiquitous experience in times of global warming. Yet, landscape…
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016) Mangu, what Evans-Pritchard translated into English as “witchcraft” and around which he built his landmark ethnography, has disappeared among the South Sudanese…
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”: New oracles among the Azande Benge, the famous chicken poison oracle that Evans-Pritchard vividly described in his classic ethnography, subsequently disappeared from Zande…
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia Although some Kakataibo women say that their elders did not know romantic love and that they…
A drum that speaks
A drum that speaks This photographic essay presents material and findings from a documentation project on the gugu (slit drum) carried out in Western Equatoria State of South Sudan between…
The kingdom, the witch, and the general
The kingdom, the witch, and the general In Western Equatoria, South Sudan, witchcraft accusations enable a narrativization of the material processes of predation that undergird the state, in a sphere…