A time of peace: Divergent temporalities in Jewish–Palestinian peace initiatives
A time of peace: Divergent temporalities in Jewish–Palestinian peace initiatives This article considers the conflicting temporal models of peace among Jewish Israelis, specifically between liberal Zionists who populate the traditional…
Iron bubbles: Exploring optimism in China’s modern ghost cities
Iron bubbles: Exploring optimism in China’s modern ghost cities Financial bubbles are generally understood retrospectively as ruptures or bursts, indexing some form of radical change. Conversely, this article proposes that…
Crafting “mafia”: Performative and material practices
Crafting “mafia”: Performative and material practices Go to Source
Mafiacraft: How to do things with silence
Mafiacraft: How to do things with silence How to construct an ethnography about such a phenomenon as “the mafia,” shrouded in silence? What methods might anthropologists use to investigate silence…
The reality of inchoateness
The reality of inchoateness Deborah Puccio-Den, working from long ethnographic experience, has provided an intriguing and challenging account of how the mafia effect—which she approaches through her own coinage of…
Calling through the water jar: Domestic objects in Nahua emotional assemblages
Calling through the water jar: Domestic objects in Nahua emotional assemblages This article re-examines human–object relations in an Indigenous Nahua context in Mexico. Inspired by the Deleuzian notion of assemblage,…
Headless queues: Disorder and disorientation in a Zimbabwean market, 2007–2008
Headless queues: Disorder and disorientation in a Zimbabwean market, 2007–2008 In this paper, I analyze Zimbabweans’ efforts to make sense of ubiquitous queues for basic goods during a period of…
Material deceptions and the qualities of time
Material deceptions and the qualities of time Go to Source
Brand displaced: Trademarking, unmarking, and making the generic
Brand displaced: Trademarking, unmarking, and making the generic In this paper, I examine the creation of prop “non-brands” in the United States movie and television industry. In taking up the…
Deception in practice: Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain
Deception in practice: Hunting and bullfighting entanglements in southern Spain Deception is a recurrent strategy deployed in the relations between human beings, between humans and animals, and even between animals,…
Doing Waiting: An Ethnomethodological Analysis
Doing Waiting: An Ethnomethodological Analysis Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Waiting is an activity that is virtually carried out by everybody at every time and everywhere. In contrast…
Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris
Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
Soldiers and Scholars: Ritual Dilemmas among National Religious Combat Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores how the practice of Jewish…
The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork
The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Black Athenians: Making and Resisting Racialized Symbolic Boundaries in the Greek Street Market
Black Athenians: Making and Resisting Racialized Symbolic Boundaries in the Greek Street Market Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I show how groups and individuals maintain…
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Between Boredom, Protest, and Community: Ethnography of Young Activists in a South African Township
Between Boredom, Protest, and Community: Ethnography of Young Activists in a South African Township Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on an ethnographic study of…
Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark
Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
An ethnography of public events: Reformulating the extended case method in contemporary social theory
An ethnography of public events: Reformulating the extended case method in contemporary social theory Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
When interlocutors die: Time and space of mobility through the biography of a homeless man
When interlocutors die: Time and space of mobility through the biography of a homeless man Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source