Objects, intimacy, citizenship: A response
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Author: Nancy Munn
The bait of falsehood, the carp of truth
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Politics of matter and politics of ontology
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Cultural apocalypses and psychopathological apocalypses
This article is a translation of an essay that Ernesto de Martino wrote during the preparation of his monograph on apocalypse, published posthumously as La fine del mondo [The end of the world]. It provides an insight into his wider project and the com…
The place and space of emptiness: An experiment in collaborative ethnographic comparison
Emptiness is a term used by residents of eastern Latvia to describe life in places that are losing their constitutive elements, such as people, jobs, schools, shops, and transport connections. In this article, we transform the emic term “emptiness” int…
Destabilizing homophobia: Kenya, the world, and now
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Criminalization on trial
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It’s going to be chaos: The emergent connectivity of online experiences
Online phenomena are frequently examined for how they connect humans socially through technology, with connectivity often considered as a state of being or doing that implies the mutually exclusive binary: connect or disconnect. This study of Airbnb On…
Law as a vocation
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Thinking about the law and hope, in dark times
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Binding claims
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Until the war on terror is abolished …
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Queering belonging in death?
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“I planted blind hope in their hearts”
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Queer subjects of intimate exclusion
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Translator’s Preface: Ernesto de Martino’s “Cultural apocalypses and psychopathological apocalypses”
This translator’s preface introduces Ernesto de Martino’s article “Cultural apocalypses and psychopathological apocalypses.” It provides readers with a concise historical and conceptual contextualization of this essay, an overview of his unfinished pro…
Introduction
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Politics of matter and politics of ontology
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The settler-colonial ethical outlook in the West Bank settlement project: Or, how a settler-colony fell apart when money entered the frontier
Applying an anthropology of ethics approach to the study of settler-colonialism, this article discloses the settler-colonial ethical outlook that animates the most activist circles in West Bank settlement society. By “settler-colonial ethical outlook” …
Spatializing culture: <em>Baithaks</em> and the surviving classical music scene in Pakistan
Adopting an inter/transdisciplinary approach, this article brings together ethnography and an ethnomusicological “ecology model”—studying music in relation to the broader sociopolitical environment—with insights from Urban Studies to spatialize the int…
Successful aging’s global moment: Visions and dilemmas of aging well
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Self-formation in precarious conditions: Women among former refugees from Lebanon in Berlin
Drawing on ethnographic research with women among former refugees from Lebanon in Berlin, this article reflects on the concept of ethical self-formation as a tool for ethnographic analysis in contexts beyond closely delineated religious or pedagogical …
Sexual im/mobilities: On queer Muslim pilgrimage
The current conflations and opportunities created by globalization lead to an invisible phenomenon of mobility: pilgrimage performed by queer Muslims. Broadly understood as either impossible to be queer and Muslim or as a sin, queer Muslim pilgrimage i…
Seeking <em>antassu</em>: The making of a Muslim barber in South India
Defined as work undertaken by the body on oneself or others, bodywork has been understood as a key aspect of the service economy today. Since it involves encountering strange bodies, dealing with intimate parts and their waste products, such workers ar…
Relationship and process in long-term care: Older husband carers and COVID-19 in the Spanish Mediterranean
This article focuses on showing the centrality of the dimensions of relationship and process in long-term care in the contexts of conjugality, aging, and disability in the Spanish Mediterranean. I consider the notions of relationship and process to be …