The life of a painting after the end of (this) life: Agentive images as relationship participants
The life of a painting after the end of (this) life: Agentive images as relationship participants The skyes sgo thangka, or “thangka for rebirth,” is a genre of Tibetan Buddhist…
Ritual persistence, ideology, and renewal of social categories: The case of Javanese kanuragan initiation
Ritual persistence, ideology, and renewal of social categories: The case of Javanese kanuragan initiation The kanuragan initiation rite is readapted in the course of a social opportunism alternatively developed by…
A Fanonian anthropology of the atmosphere of felt disasters and felt changes: Revisiting Fanon to explore the felt disasters of war, epidemics, and humanitarian interventions in the tenth Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC
A Fanonian anthropology of the atmosphere of felt disasters and felt changes: Revisiting Fanon to explore the felt disasters of war, epidemics, and humanitarian interventions in the tenth Ebola epidemic…
Disentangling entangled amaXhosa manhood in psychosis: A cross-cultural psychiatric case study, Cape Town, South Africa
Disentangling entangled amaXhosa manhood in psychosis: A cross-cultural psychiatric case study, Cape Town, South Africa Recognizing how the amaXhosa people of South Africa value well-functioning circumcision rituals, our paper interrogates…
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Ethics and regulatory compliance in the human sciences: Anthropologists’ critique through the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Ethics and regulatory compliance in the human sciences: Anthropologists’ critique through the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Scholars in the human sciences, particularly anthropology, have long perceived tensions between…
Embracing risk: Islamic finance and practice in the bazaar
Embracing risk: Islamic finance and practice in the bazaar In this article I demonstrate that Muslim traders in the bazaar inhabit a practical-experiential conception of Islamic economic practice in contrast…
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains
Imamat in stone: Theologies of the present in the Karakoram Mountains In Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountain range, two Shi‘i Muslim communities write monumental messages in stone. Nizari Isma‘ilis celebrate the continuation…
The coming future is now: Artists, data scientists, and artificial intelligence (AI) in India
The coming future is now: Artists, data scientists, and artificial intelligence (AI) in India Indian artists are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their creative works. While their output shows…
Malware of history: The encryption of the once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia)
Malware of history: The encryption of the once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia) The article explores a proliferation of architecture to commemorate the events of the Second…
Knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics
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Post-conventional anthropology: A paradigm for cultivating pluralism and confidence in uncertainty
Post-conventional anthropology: A paradigm for cultivating pluralism and confidence in uncertainty This article details an encounter of anthropological instruction on cross-cultural perceptions of the environment and cultural heritage which was…
Knowing more by knowing less: Knowledge and the will to ignorance among Indonesian Buddhists
Knowing more by knowing less: Knowledge and the will to ignorance among Indonesian Buddhists In this article, I explore the theme of spiritual ignorance that is prevalent in the doctrinal…
This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola
This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola The literature on witchcraft has focused predominantly on the accusation of witches, the procedures for establishing guilt, and the…
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography: Animacy, aesthetics, and deep time
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography: Animacy, aesthetics, and deep time What does it mean for scholars to engage rocks ethnographically? And how is ethnography redefined back by an encounter with…
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I examine Bolivian hip-hoppers’ responses to the precarity of their practice, illustrating how they position…
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article examineshow and why dangerous imaginaries are constructed, how researchers’ positionalities are implicated in…
‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome
‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article analyses the conflicts that arise between students and educational institutions within the…
Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student
Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Qualitative field research can be profoundly rewarding, but it is also a…
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the…