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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In fear of spatiotemporal overlap: Coping with the infrastructure of zero-COVID
In fear of spatiotemporal overlap: Coping with the infrastructure of zero-COVID This paper draws attention to the ways in which the policy of zero covid disciplines spatiotemporal proximity to control…
Coping with stress as a collective?: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown
Coping with stress as a collective?: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown During Shanghai’s two-month lockdown in 2022, residential community members coped with stress collectively.…
Food shortage and its discontents during the Shanghai lockdown
Food shortage and its discontents during the Shanghai lockdown During the Shanghai lockdown in the spring of 2022, over twenty-five million residents had difficulty securing staple food and fresh groceries…
“Our sacrifices were in vain”: Zero-COVID and the betrayal of trust
“Our sacrifices were in vain”: Zero-COVID and the betrayal of trust For the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, most urban Chinese displayed a high level of…
Embodied border control on the move: Self-management of Chinese returnees under the zero-COVID regime
Embodied border control on the move: Self-management of Chinese returnees under the zero-COVID regime For more than two years, China was one of the most difficult countries to enter. Within…
“That’s not a proper ethnography”: a hybrid “propportune” ethnography to study nurses’ perceptions of organisational culture in a British hospital
“That's not a proper ethnography”: a hybrid “propportune” ethnography to study nurses' perceptions of organisational culture in a British hospital “That's not a proper ethnography”: a hybrid “propportune” ethnography to…
Appearance, disappearance, transience
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From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon
From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon Go to Source
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more How were lockdowns implemented, experienced, and perceived under China’s zero-COVID regime? How do we make sense of its sudden collapse after…
From lockdowns (fengcheng) to silence (jingmo): Zero-COVID politics in China
From lockdowns (fengcheng) to silence (jingmo): Zero-COVID politics in China COVID-19 lockdowns instituted a new kind of normal for many in China in the past three years. From Wuhan to…
A dissonant lockdown of a post-danwei neighborhood in a third-tier city
A dissonant lockdown of a post-danwei neighborhood in a third-tier city This article offers a case study of six-day lockdown experiences in a post-danwei (work unit) neighborhood in Mianyang, a…
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this autoethnography of ethnographic training and methodologies, I reflect upon unaddressed tensions in a Los…