She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Author: Nancy Munn
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Practicing restraint
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
If oil palm is an agent in West Papua, it is a White agent
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Invention and grace: Taking turns in a streetcorner bureaucracy
This article analyzes the styles of work and conflict of a group of electrical contractors who congregate across the street from a power utility office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on a rich tradition of urban Africanist ethnography, as well as …
Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Plantation capitalism as categorical violence
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Portrayal of the vital world of a person living with Alzheimer’s, drawing on a close and intimate case
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Of sago, songs, and stories
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On Gillian Gillison’s primal aggression
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People, plants, plantations: Responses and reflections
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Islam L.A. style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses
In this article, I explore distinct ways in which Iranian American mosque-goers in Southern California understand and define Islam. I argue that rather than relying on authoritative Islamic sources and discourses, Iranian Angelenos primarily characteri…
Learning about “human”
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Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness
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“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo
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Litany of ghosts
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Gillison’s gift
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Grey zones of the imagination
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Avatar, personified: Split personhood on an ethical online support group
Studies of digital life have theorized the heuristic value of theoretical and emic boundaries and/or the interconnectedness of online and offline selves, often with a focus on the curation of an online self whose distinctiveness must be methodologicall…
Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America
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An anathema for memory loss
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal
This article examines the networks of charity developed by Muslims to discuss community-making in Portugal. Giving allows donors to create affective and moral spaces of communal life with recipients of aid that move beyond the ethical and pious dimensi…
The Egyptian communities in Milan: Ideas of home, home-making, and care at the time of COVID-19
The Egyptian communities in Milan are among the oldest and largest migrant communities in Italy, their history dating back to the 1970s. Following in-depth ethnographic research, this article explores their members’ representations and understandings o…
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination
This article explores the polyvocal and inherently contested arena of Palestinianness as a moral place of belonging, for which I suggest the term “home” as an anthropological category denoting affective places of belonging for a given social group. Thi…
Afterword
In this afterword, I consider the important contributions this special section makes to the study of the relations between immanence, transcendence, and mediation in the study of Islam and religion more generally, and the dialogue it opens up with the …