Enduring waste: Subjects and objects of siege
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Introduction: “Overseas ethnography” and the audiences of academic anthropology in China
Introduction: “Overseas ethnography” and the audiences of academic anthropology in China This essay introduces the translations of two articles by Gao Bingzhong on the topic of “overseas ethnography” in China.…
Anthropological overseas ethnographies and the development of Chinese social science
Anthropological overseas ethnographies and the development of Chinese social science Go to Source
Overseas ethnography and globalized society
Overseas ethnography and globalized society Go to Source
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In…
The mediation of emotions: On aspects of dispute settlement and violence in Hagen
The mediation of emotions: On aspects of dispute settlement and violence in Hagen This account dates from 1985, originally a companion piece to “Discovering ‘social control’” (1985), but not published…
The violence and promise of infrastructural discards
The violence and promise of infrastructural discards Go to Source
Occupation by other means
Occupation by other means Go to Source
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep Go to Source
Waste as weapon, life as resistance
Waste as weapon, life as resistance Go to Source
Decolonizing anthropology at a distance: Some thoughts
Decolonizing anthropology at a distance: Some thoughts Through the notions of distance, double critique, and colonial difference, this essay suggests a decolonization through a novel usage of colonial ethnographies. Analyzing…
Are the things really burnt?
Are the things really burnt? By looking at the vestiges of the scientific archive destroyed by the fire that reduced Brazil’s National Museum to ruins in September 2018, this essay…
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit? How does anthropology figure?
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit? How does anthropology figure? With Detroit as its principal site, this essay examines the possibility and the hope for developing a decolonial practice…
Humbling anthropology: Ego reflexivus and White ignorance
Humbling anthropology: Ego reflexivus and White ignorance In this essay, I propose a process of humbling anthropology in order to counter the (re)production of White ignorance. I argue that anthropology’s…
Is Hagen compensation to Western restitution as gift is to commodity?
Is Hagen compensation to Western restitution as gift is to commodity? Go to Source
Caribbean–Mediterranean counterpoint
Caribbean–Mediterranean counterpoint This afterword comments on the articles collected in this special issue dedicated to the counterpoint between the Mediterranean where Fernando Ortiz grew up, and the Caribbean where he…
Decolonizing ethnographies
Decolonizing ethnographies For this Currents section, we have called upon anthropologists across the global South and North in the attempt to mainstream the long overdue issue of decolonizing ethnographies. On…
The reluctant native: Or, decolonial ontologies and epistemic disobedience
The reluctant native: Or, decolonial ontologies and epistemic disobedience Anthropologists, in regular intervals, tend to ask a cardinal question: How do we know what we know? Storms about ethnography and…
Annihilating the “savage slot” from anthropology: Materializing reflexive practices
Annihilating the “savage slot” from anthropology: Materializing reflexive practices Calls to “decolonize” the social sciences have reverberated in academia since at least the 1950s. Anthropology, in particular, has been marked…
Listening to disrupt ethnographic representations
Listening to disrupt ethnographic representations Convinced that ethnography still provides a critical tool for studying and understanding our ever-changing and complex world, I present here a case for approaching ethnographic…