Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience
Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience This article examines Qurʾānic recitation as a modality of divine presence among Bā ʿAlawī Sufis in Tarīm (Yemen) and…
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims Drawing on fieldwork among older Kyrgyz people who become old in the absence…
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence This article weaves together major lines of inquiry in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam to consider how to approach…
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge Because of the difficulty anthropology continues to face in relinquishing its secular vestiges, field encounters…
Ethnographies of the unseen
Ethnographies of the unseen Go to Source
Beyond breadth: The tyranny of empty noise
Beyond breadth: The tyranny of empty noise Go to Source
Expanded visions and beyond
Expanded visions and beyond Go to Source
Fifty years of resistance on film: First Nations media and a cinema of sovereignty
Fifty years of resistance on film: First Nations media and a cinema of sovereignty Go to Source
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions Go to Source
The collideroscopic sensorium
The collideroscopic sensorium Go to Source
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge Go to Source
Mirroring mirrors: Mimetic responses to expanded visions
Mirroring mirrors: Mimetic responses to expanded visions Go to Source
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
The Oka crisis: The power of a woman with a movie camera Go to Source
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…