Modeling Charisma: AI’s Fashion Mirror Stage
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Abstraction as Resistance to Racialized Surveillance: The Intersections of Art, Technology, and Identity in the Age of Computer Vision
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Instagram and the Memed Self
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Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
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Announcement: Change in Publication Month
Dear Readers and Contributors, We would like to inform you of an important update regarding our journal’s publication schedule. Starting 2025, we will be changing the publication cycle, with the issues published in February and August instead of January and July. This decision has been made to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest … Continue reading
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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES
The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…
Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan)
The aim of this paper is to determine the social and discursive functions of Beja proverbs and the reasons why some of them are attributed to non-human enunciators. The discussion is based on oral texts of different genres (tales, poems, and…
The Poetics of Second Liberation
This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’,…
Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education
This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample…
Rethinking Language
The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…
Politics of Race, Belonging and Community in Yeboyah’s music video ‘Elovena’
The Elovena maiden is, for some, one of the most important cultural symbols of the Finnish identity. This character has traditionally been portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed white woman and repeatedly used in artistic and commercial contexts. I…
Dancing, singing, and ethnography as political acts
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Central Asian sociabilities
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
People who live in glass houses: Author as subject, Subject as author
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The Thirty Boys: The filmmaker’s reflections
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Writing family: Diaspora and self-representation in autoethnography
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Beneath a modernist roof: A critical autoethnography
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Less is more/Less and more
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
One hundred years of habitude: Reflections on Michael Lambek’s Behind the glass
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
On fuzziness
This article is a consideration of the conceptual power of Verdery’s concept of “fuzzy property.” “Fuzzy property” has helped me understand the phenomenon of lupiaje in Guanajuato, Mexico—where men enter silver-gold mines at night to extract ore—by fol…
Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination
This article celebrates Katherine Verdery’s impact on the discipline of cultural anthropology through an exploration of the intersection of suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination in ethnographic research, drawing on Verdery’s experiences duri…
What’s in a family?
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
What was fascism?
In her influential monographs and essays, Katherine Verdery transformed understandings of state socialism and the command economy at its heart. I reflect here on how scholars might similarly reframe understandings of Italian fascism through renewed att…
“A tradition from our ancestors”: Community and cultural continuity with The Thirty Boys
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East
This article reflects on the anthropological scholarship of Katherine Verdery, especially her last book, My life as a spy, to explore the conditions of doing fieldwork and producing knowledge in the European East during the Cold War and onwards. In par…