Reports
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 141-145
Category: English
Blocking the Exit
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 42-56
Islam as the Problem, Christianity as the Solution
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 86-103
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 20-41
Master Servant Relationships in the Eastern Cape: the 1820 Settlement
by Amina Marzouk Chouchene Abstract This article is about the rebellious behavior of the servant class and the consequent threat it posed to the established social order in the 1820 settlement. There were deep anxieties amongst the higher echelons of the settlement about maintaining class distinctions. Upper and middle class settlers relied on informal and […]
Signal Cascades in Angola’s Independence Struggle, 1955-1975
by Candace Sobers Abstract This article considers one aspect of the international relations of the Angolan independence struggle: the prevalence in archives of records reflecting strong support for one of three rival Angolan national liberation movements (NLMs), the MPLA. Simple explanations, including the post-independence dominance of the MPLA in Angolan politics, offer unsatisfactory explanations for […]
Introduction: A Film Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) by Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The Oka crisis: The power of a woman with a movie camera
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
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…
The giving palm: Valuing generosity and status through human-plant relations in Omani sung poetry
Omani poets theorize the value of generosity by distinguishing between two nominally similar events—two instances of men watering trees. Analyzing Omani oral poetry shows how this distinction is justified by graded equivalencies that metaphorically jus…
Mirroring mirrors: Mimetic responses to expanded visions
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Reflections on signs and sacrifice: A response to Quincy Amoah
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
“Imagination is a tree”: A response to John Galaty
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The collideroscopic sensorium
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Expanded visions and beyond
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The semantics of akisemem: A response to Michael Herzfeld
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Beyond breadth: The tyranny of empty noise
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Creation stories: Carrying our elders of Indigenous media
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Fifty years of resistance on film: First Nations media and a cinema of sovereignty
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics in Pampanga, the Philippines. I emphasize the intersubjective and pedagogical components of this process by discussing the impleme…
Spotlight on the liminal dividend
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality
In the introduction to this special section, I discuss the way in which a focus on pedagogy in ethical practice can provide insights regarding the multifaceted nature of subjectivity, as well as the tendency of ethical learning, broadly understood, to …