Reviews
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 119-126
Anthropology against Borders
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 112-118
Introduction: Ritual Performance and Religious Identity
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 1-7
The Power of Musical Aesthetics
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 8-24
Charlatans and Fraudsters
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 25-40
There is No Place Like al-Dār
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 41-66
Mehir (Dower), Gifts of Gold, and Intimate Economies of Marriage in Istanbul
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 67-85
Becoming an Abla
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 104-124
Islam as the Problem, Christianity as the Solution
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 86-103
Reports
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 141-145
Migrant Souls
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 125-140
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 […]
Water thieves
The use of tropes is a defining feature of resource regulation and is fundamental to both the way legal theories have evolved and to the practical, localized interpretations and implementations of law. This article offers a discursive study of the “wat…
Big infrastructure and/as systemic flexibility: The Sites Reservoir story
If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California’s water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastruct…
Striking for public power: Workers, energy and the nationalization of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, 1933-1941
This article examines the role of working people in the energy transition that played out in Puerto Rico in the 1930s and 1940s – from a private, fossil fuel-based regime to a public, hydroelectric system. It argues that by withholding their labo…
Silent violence to the core: Environmental suffering and suffocating uncertainties in the Colombian Caribbean coal industry
For many, the coal industry in Colombia has been synonymous with progress, economic growth and access to education and housing opportunities on the Caribbean mining frontier. However, little has been said about the slow, dosed and silent violence that …
Evoking Eternity: Orthodox Co-presence in Post-Yugoslav Central Serbia
Cultural Anthropology
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek: On the Problem of Diaspora, the Economy of Agonism, and the Extimacy of Relation-Making
Cultural Anthropology
Sustaining Containability: Zero Waste and White Space
Cultural Anthropology
Deciphering a Non-meal: Pantawid-Gutom and the Everyday Negotiation of Hunger in the Philippines
Cultural Anthropology
Desnacionalización, regímenes visuales y resistencia: Gitanos Americanos en Ciudad de México
Cultural Anthropology
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The Production of the New Man Within the PKK [Full text]
Olivier Grojean
Surveillance, Normalisation, and Repression [Full text]
Gilles Dorronsoro, Olivier Grojean and Jeanne He…
The Slow Reading Ethnography Experiment
While much has been published in anthropological discourse and teaching forums about the skills, practices and positionality of ethnographic writing, very little attention has been paid to the practices and experiences of ethnographic reading. Our proj…
Call for Papers: Food in the Africas; environment and health at the core of contemporary global changes
Thinking ecologically about food reminds us that « eating is an agricultural act (enfing) the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth » (Berry, W. 1992)
At a time of global social and environmental changes (Bla…