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Book Reviews
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The Crack Invites
Journal Name: Migration and SocietyVolume: 5Issue: 1Pages: 152-153
Engaging Undergraduate Students in Forensic Anthropology Research During Times of Restricted Lab Access: The Efficacy and Importance of Student-Led Surveys
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on experiential learning have been felt by students interested in forensic anthropology casework and lab training. Without access to labs and with cancellations of courses related to hands-on learning like human ost…
“The Garden” and “Wanna Know My Secret?”
InVisible Culture
“Half Cat”, “Ceiling Cat”, and “Catt”
InVisible Culture
Beyond Based and Cringe: An Examination of Contemporary Modes of Irony and Sincerity in Cultural Production
InVisible Culture
The Political Life of GIFs: The Common Emotional Displays That Let Us Disagree More Consummately on Social Media
InVisible Culture
“You Say You’re Anti-Capitalist…Yet You Earn a Living!”: Teenage Stepdad and the Memeification of Culture Jamming
InVisible Culture
Introduction / Issue 34: InVisible Memes for Cultural Teens
InVisible Culture
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs?
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Scales of knowing
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Fateful rite of passage: Charismatic ratification of elite merit in China’s National College Entrance Exam
This article argues that China’s National College Entrance Exam, the Gaokao, provides routinized charismatic ratification of elite merit and state authority. In his writings, Max Weber differentiates between original and routinized charisma. Whereas or…
Comparative urbanism and collective methodologies: Restoration projects in West Bengal and South East London
Asking who gets to compare, this paper advocates inclusive research methodologies through a discussion of comparison and collaboration in urban anthropology. It reports on difficulties in trying to include otherwise excluded perspectives that have part…
The death of urban China: Reflections on Harriet Evans’s Beijing from below
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The psychedelic ritual as a technique of the self: Identity reconfiguration and narrative reframing in the therapeutic efficacy of ayahuasca
Although so-called “psychedelic” substances have recently experienced a revival of interest in their therapeutic properties, the underpinnings of their effectiveness remain poorly understood. Based on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in a P…
The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture: A reply to Philip Swift
This piece is a response to Philip Swift’s article in this issue, where he critiques issues concerning ethnographic theory raised in my book World: An anthropological examination. Inspired by the work of Donald Davidson, I argue that indeterminacy and …
Heathen hermeneutics: Or, radical “radical interpretation”
Translation—both multi- and intra-lingual—is vital to anthropological method. Drawing a distinction between two opposing modes of translation (“domesticating” versus “foreignizing”), this paper considers the ontological and ethical consequences of thes…
Burning translations
This essay radicalizes the call for foreignizing translation in anthropology by pushing translation beyond a reference to an anthropological self. What I recognize as “burning translations” responds to the abolitionist call for “letting anthropology bu…
“Where it was, I must come into being”
This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept, language, and difference being mobilized by Philip Swift.
Reality remodeled: Practical fictions for a more-than-empirical world
Most ethnographers have little use for models and other formal abstractions, yet even a staunch empiricist such as Franz Boas could appreciate the “aesthetic” advantages of idealization and simplification. These advantages have been largely ignored in …
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Life in old Beijing
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory