“Are You Married?”: Gender and Faith in Political Ethnographic Research
“Are You Married?”: Gender and Faith in Political Ethnographic Research Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I look at how political ethnography can contribute to the…
Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?
Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”? Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines pedagogies of sport in youth detention, drawing…
“The Chinese” in Nigeria: Discursive Ethnicities and (Dis)embedded Experiences
“The Chinese” in Nigeria: Discursive Ethnicities and (Dis)embedded Experiences Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the emerging Africa–China studies, ethnography has been employed to demystify the monolithic Chinese…
“You Don’t Want to Feel Poor All the Time”: What SNAP Means to Low-Income Philadelphia Residents
“You Don’t Want to Feel Poor All the Time”: What SNAP Means to Low-Income Philadelphia Residents Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through participant observation while grocery shopping, and…
Becoming traditional: Contemporary san art and the production of (non-) knowledge
Becoming traditional: Contemporary san art and the production of (non-) knowledge Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The contribution of arts for development has recently received a great deal of attention from…
Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk
Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographers’ concerns about institutional ethics review are by now well-known and several hypotheses have been advanced to explain…
Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage
Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage Go to Source
How exceptional are the Lòlop’ò?
How exceptional are the Lòlop’ò? Go to Source
Ritual as theory, theory as ritual
Ritual as theory, theory as ritual Go to Source
The rights of the dead
The rights of the dead Go to Source
Corpses and voices across worlds
Corpses and voices across worlds Go to Source
Introduction to “Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage” by Paul Kirchhoff
Introduction to “Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage” by Paul Kirchhoff Go to Source
Practices of Ethnographic Research: Introduction to the Special Issue
Practices of Ethnographic Research: Introduction to the Special Issue Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 3-10, February 2021. Go to Source
Ethical citizenship and global development: Exploring the intersections
Ethical citizenship and global development: Exploring the intersections Departing from Aihwa Ong’s influential analysis of citizenship as a Foucauldian cultural project of subject-making, this contribution examines three global development citizen-subjects:…
The future is family
The future is family Future visions energize growing enterprises, states, and families to act. Together, these entwined processes and their conflicts open unpredictable avenues for both profit-making and social transformation.…
Singing a cosmos into being—for silent or argumentative ancestors?
Singing a cosmos into being—for silent or argumentative ancestors? Go to Source
Death rites as existential inquiry
Death rites as existential inquiry Go to Source
Ritual action, context and comparison
Ritual action, context and comparison Go to Source
Against invisibilization—towards “Blackness” as a universal claim
Against invisibilization—towards “Blackness” as a universal claim From post-World War II Germany to contemporary contexts beyond Europe and the United States, this contribution considers the extent to which “Blackness” has…
Asia as strategy: Deployments of a Chinese planet
Asia as strategy: Deployments of a Chinese planet This contribution reflects on Aihwa Ong’s thoughts on the global and her later work with Asian scientists to look at recent Chinese…