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…
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil.…
Reclaiming of the heritage name by Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands and their sense of belonging
Reclaiming of the heritage name by Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands and their sense of belonging Reclaiming of the heritage name by Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands and their sense of belongingMay Ling Thio, Linawati SidartoJournal of Organizational…
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores the contradictions and political possibilities…
Urban gardens as inclusive green living rooms? Gardening activities in Gothenburg, across and within social divides
Urban gardens as inclusive green living rooms? Gardening activities in Gothenburg, across and within social divides Urban gardens as inclusive green living rooms? Gardening activities in Gothenburg, across and within…
Problematising Aspirations, Transformations, and Societal Expectations: Revisioning Academic Success and Wellbeing Through Cross-Cultural Autoethnographic Exploration
Problematising Aspirations, Transformations, and Societal Expectations: Revisioning Academic Success and Wellbeing Through Cross-Cultural Autoethnographic Exploration Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Having aspirations and goals to strive for provides…
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa) Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Toponymic struggles are about forms of civic belonging that street names…
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on an ethnographic study of young…