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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spotlight on the liminal dividend
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From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia
From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia I met Brigida in 2015. At the time, she presented herself as a young gay man, somewhat androgynous,…
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status Debate about the status of animals has long impassioned theologians and philosophers. Are other animals “subjects” sharing the same rights as…
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963 The first White man, so runs the Ramkokamekra Canela myth, was Aukê, a miraculous Indigenous boy who ends up…
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him…
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China This article outlines China’s pandemic governance as an ever-changing assemblage of old and new techniques, material forms, and organizational structures over the course of three…
Ethnology of Indigenous prophetic movements in the South American Lowlands: An overview
Ethnology of Indigenous prophetic movements in the South American Lowlands: An overview This article introduces the translation of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha’s atricle “Logic of myth and action: The Canela…
The entrepreneurial self of market socialism: Life insurance agents in rural central Vietnam
The entrepreneurial self of market socialism: Life insurance agents in rural central Vietnam Casting the self as the primary unit of profit-making and value creation, the entrepreneurial self evolves from…
Troubling complicities The anthropologist as (im)moral subject?
Troubling complicities The anthropologist as (im)moral subject? This creative article seeks to trouble dominant modes of how anthropologists position themselves as moral subjects and grapple with their complicity with/in empire…