Writing around violence: Representing organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica
Writing around violence: Representing organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
On becoming an organizational autoethnographer
On becoming an organizational autoethnographer Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the process and challenges of applying an autoethnographic research…
Thinking within, across and beyond lifestyle paradigms: Later-life mobility histories and practices ‘in’ Ubud, Bali
Thinking within, across and beyond lifestyle paradigms: Later-life mobility histories and practices ‘in’ Ubud, Bali Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Yi Cui is an independent filmmaker. She was born and raised in northwest China and currently lives between her homeland and Canada. Before starting to make films, she…
The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa
The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Embodying the nation: The production of sameness and difference in national-day parades
Embodying the nation: The production of sameness and difference in national-day parades Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Total social phenomena and social dynamics
Total social phenomena and social dynamics Go to Source
Introduction to The semi-scholars, by Arnold van Gennep
Introduction to The semi-scholars, by Arnold van Gennep Go to Source
The semi-scholars
The semi-scholars Go to Source
Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space
Holiday Gifting at a Children’s Hospital: Sacred Ritual, Sacred Space Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i
Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i What does it mean to be rich? This paper explores prosperity from the perspective not of material…
Precariousness and prosperity among Javanese fish traders
Precariousness and prosperity among Javanese fish traders Fish traders in a port on the north coast of Central Java say that they work as hard as they do so that…
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia
Multiplication through division: Value, time, and prosperity in Indonesia The paper explores contemporary practices of value multiplication among Muslims in Indonesia, paying particular attention to the rise to public prominence…
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman
In search of dignity: Political economy and nationalism among Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman This article aims to problematize the well-rehearsed argument that the rise of the neoliberal tide has…
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali
“The vulture without fear”: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali This article explores the relationship between religiosity and prosperity through a particular ethnographic case from Mali and interrogates…
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time
Anthropological investigations of vitality: Life force as a dimension distinct from space and time In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament—a return to a…
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon
Life on the cusp of form: In search of worldliness with Palestinian refugees in Tyre, Lebanon This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic…
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species
Forms of life and life itself: Reflections on human relations with ideas, artworks, and other species This essay explores experiences that lie ambiguously between the inchoate, the intuitive, and the…
Alternate modes of prosperity
Alternate modes of prosperity Go to Source
“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria
“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria This article explores the ways in which Ramadan charity and almsgiving in Aleppo before the current…