Spying and doing fieldwork in the East
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East This article reflects on the anthropological scholarship of Katherine Verdery, especially her last book, My life as a spy, to explore the conditions…
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe The article examines the impact of Katherine Verdery’s work on gender under socialism as exemplified by her…
Time and space in the work of Katherine Verdery
Time and space in the work of Katherine Verdery Katherine Verdery is often thought of as a theorist of time and temporality. In “The ‘etatization’ of time in Ceauşescu’s Romania,”…
Katherine Verdery: Brushing aside the ideological curtain
Katherine Verdery: Brushing aside the ideological curtain This contribution highlights one of Katherine Verdery’s strengths as an anthropologist: her ability to recognize and penetrate foundational ideological formations to analyze the…
The vanishing villager: Three decades of political, economic and ethnic change in Bulgaria
The vanishing villager: Three decades of political, economic and ethnic change in Bulgaria One measure of a scholar’s work is how long it continues to be relevant and useful. This…
Flows
Flows The socialist systems relied on particular flows of information, goods, and connections that not only enabled them to function, at least for a few decades, but also became intrinsic…
The affective economy of democracy: Women’s adverse incorporation in party politics in Dehradun, North India
The affective economy of democracy: Women’s adverse incorporation in party politics in Dehradun, North India Party politics is an affective economy in which the generation and accumulation of positive sentiments…
Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?
Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac? Urban anthropology is a discipline that emerged only with great difficulty. Its origin in…
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977–1997
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977–1997 The article describes Katherine Verdery’s intellectual contributions and interactions with her colleagues at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University from 1977–1997. Go to Source
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file As a foreign anthropologist in Romania in the 1970s and ’80s, Katherine Verdery was…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Movements and margins
Movements and margins Go to Source
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…
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…
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…