Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America
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Author: Nancy Munn
Gillison’s gift
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On Gillian Gillison’s primal aggression
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Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness
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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…
People, plants, plantations: Responses and reflections
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“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo
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Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan
This article examines dream practices among a Sufi community in present-day Afghanistan. The main argument revolves around the question of how preparing for, expecting, and communally negotiating the veracity of dreams stands in a process of individual…
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…
Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience
This article examines Qurʾānic recitation as a modality of divine presence among Bā ʿAlawī Sufis in Tarīm (Yemen) and Jakarta (Indonesia). It engages with Sufi ontologies that have shaped Bā ʿAlawīs’ understanding of Qurʾānic recitation as capable of e…
Ethnographies of the unseen
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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…
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge
Because of the difficulty anthropology continues to face in relinquishing its secular vestiges, field encounters with not-immediately-perceptible reality, the realm of God, the invisible, and the otherworldly have usually been removed or deemed insigni…
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims
Drawing on fieldwork among older Kyrgyz people who become old in the absence of their relatives, this paper explores the afterlife as a horizon of possibility which intersects with the everyday in ways that collapse distinctions between the transcenden…
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia
Drawing on fieldwork in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia, this article explores my interlocutors’ mode of experiencing the world and transcendence. By letting myself be seen in the field, I let them shape the terms of our encounter as a way of glimpsing…
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence
This article weaves together major lines of inquiry in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam to consider how to approach and think about transcendence within anthropology at large. It does so by exploring one particular kind of Muslim ontology and…
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…
Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora
Here we introduce a special section that spans this and the next issue of Hau. The articles in the section focus on home and home-making and all that this entails for Muslims who have left their homes or cannot be fully at home in their home places. Ac…
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America
How do people make themselves at home in situations of movement, dispersal, and marginalization? Migration scholars have destabilized the idea that a home is bound to a dwelling, and developed more processual ways of conceptualizing home. In this artic…
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Engaging with contemporary literature on migration and home-making, in this article I examine Salafi concepts of home and its relationship to the idea of nation-state. I discuss how Salafism, a transnational Islamic proselytizing movement, strives to c…
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 …
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge
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Expanded visions and beyond
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Two ways of being the Body of Christ: Toward an anthropology of church forms, with reference to Baptist and Roman Catholic polities in Italy
In this article, an anthropologist and a theologian explore an analytical framework for the comparative study of Christian churches, focusing in particular on ritual life among Roman Catholics and Baptist Protestants in Italy. Catholics and Baptists ha…
Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus
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