Introduction
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Spatial Memory and Narration
Western Movements in Non-Western Worlds
Bryant and Knight, The Anthropology of the Future
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Pitarch and Kelly eds, The Culture of Invention in the Americas
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
New issue: Volume 17
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 17 contains the dossier “Anthropology in times of intolerance: challenges facing neoconservatism”.
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Land and Life
‘Why Do We Need Your Research?’
The anthropology of security is slowly developing into a substantial sub-discipline of anthropology, yet there are only a few works that elaborate on how the research on security is conducted, what ethical issues emerge in this process, and how this di…
COVID-19, Discipline and Blame
The preventive measures implemented to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Italy involve the self-confinement of the population. At the same time, I argue, an ethos of self-discipline is promoted, leading to ambiguous results. Although the pandemic may…
Accelerating Curve of Anxiousness
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
The Long Walk
The Covid-19 pandemic has made a commonplace of the carceral imaginary. Isolation, social distancing, quarantine have become watchwords. Physician instructions, epidemiologist advice, state orders jostle alongside memes and jokes about being under ‘loc…
Police Bullshit
The police say brutal things. Research has documented how officers, when amongst themselves, talk about people in derogatory ways or openly fantasize about the use of excessive violence. In the literature, such backstage talk is in general analyzed in …
RETHINKING NAVAJO SOCIAL THEORY
Hal Scheffler, in arguing that native concepts about procreation provide the basis for kin reckoning universally, presented considerable evidence for his argument, in addition to the extension rules for which he is best known, This essay applies this e…
BACK TO KINSHIP III: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Back to Kinship III is the third Special Issue of the e-journal, Structure and Dynamics sponsored by the group, Kinship Circle. Each issue is dedicated to current kinship research.There are 5 articles in this Special Issue, covering a wide range of kin…
“Not Even All Physicians Know Chinese Medicine!”: Analysing the Legitimation Strategies of Chinese Medicine in the Estonian Media
To exemplify the legitimation processes of a pluralistic health field this article focuses on representations of Chinese medicine and its most popular spokesperson, Rene Bürkland, in the Estonian media. From 320 media texts published between 2009 and 2…
Introduction: Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts
Short versions of the following articles were presented at the panel ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature,’ which Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University) and I organized at the fifteenth …
Marketing African and Oceanic Art at the High-end of the Global Art Market: The Case of Christie’s and Sotheby’s
This article examines both the development and implications of a sales strategy deployed by Christie’s and Sotheby’s from the mid-2000s to increase their market share and the prices of African and Oceanic art. The strategy was designed to entice…
Dak’Art Off. Between Local Art Forms and Global Art Canon Discourses.
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into …
Returning to Form: Anthropology, Art and a Trans-Formal Methodological Approach
This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation between social and aesthetic form. It draws on the authors’ work with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small communit…
A Journey from Virtual and Mixed Reality to Byzantine Icons via Buddhist Philosophy
In the context of contemporary digital art and documentary making, practitioners are discovering the possibilities given by emerging image-based immersive practices, techniques and tools (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and…
Value, Correspondence, and Form: Recalibrating Scales for a Contemporary Anthropology of Art (Epilogue)
Reflecting on two sets of analytical trajectories of the articles in this special issue — ‘institutions, histories, and spheres of valuation’ (Thomas Fillitz and Tamara Schild) and ‘immersion, correspondence, and form’ (Alex Flynn/Lucy Bell and …
The Burden of Security
After the Babri mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992 by mobs of ‘volunteers’ mobilised by Hindu nationalist forces, a deed of license between the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Uttar Pradesh state governme…
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to …
On the Sensory Policing of Vices
This paper explores the policing of vices and offers a critical inquiry into the affective politics of policing practices seen through police and state ethnography, political anthropology, and the ‘affective turn’ in social and cultural theory. It show…
Border Militias
Narratives of security and threat are continually used to justify morally contentious activities. In the past three years, the United States’ government has increasingly promoted narratives of “criminal migrants” and “immigrant invasions.” In response …