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Migration as redistribution: Claiming access and the politics of presence Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Kiri Olivia Santer
This article proposes a theory of distributive conditionality in the context of migration; it outlines the modalities under which redistributive effects materialize as a consequence of migration from the Global South to the Global North. Tendayi Achiume (2019) argues that migration contributes to the redistribution of political equality throughout the globe. However, there is a need to better distinguish
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The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: Querying paradigms through the politics of Made-in-Italy agribusiness operations Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Irene Peano
The article questions the paradigmatic nature ascribed to “the zone”—and the concomitant dismissal of the camp's—by some analyses of the politics of capital's operations, and problematizes the very notion of the paradigm. Elaborating on previous reflections concerning contemporary agro-industrial zones in Italy, the article rethinks camps against state-centric and exceptionalist readings that consider
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A sovereign grant and a franchised state: Tin mineral supply chains in south Kivu of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Timo Makori
In resource extraction regions, nation-states tend to be depicted as the legal authority sanctioning profitable mining operations in close collaboration with corporate actors in their domestic territories. Especially in post-colonial contexts, corporate sovereignty is the term deployed by anthropologists to depict the acts of power by legally sanctioned corporate actors within a space of negotiation
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Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Fırat Bozçalı
In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers occasionally entered insurgent corridors, the guerrilla-controlled mountainous passages, to bypass state control. This article takes insurgent corridors to frame sovereignty as monopolization of space-making and proposes space-making as a key analytic to examine the forms of sovereignty that facilitate or undermine specific extractive practices. As a spatial
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Sovereign extractions, extractive sovereignty Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Alice von Bieberstein, Erdem Evren
Within the broader context of a financialised supply-chain capitalism and the international governance of statehood in the wake of decolonisation and European integration, this special issue asks how sovereignty figures in relation to extraction at this conjuncture. In this introduction, we outline the issue's conceptual framework. We argue that sovereignty manifests as a space-making power, across
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Renewing an ‘Armenian’ neighbourhood: Recursive dispossession and the history of extractive sovereignty in Turkey Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Alice von Bieberstein
Based on ethnographic research on an urban regeneration project targeting the historically Armenian quarter of a provincial capital in the Kurdish parts of Turkey, the article engages with two related, but separate strands of anthropological scholarship on the ‘fragmented’ nature of sovereignty to think through the relation of sovereignty and extraction. It does so, firstly, in relation to contemporary
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Fiscal extraction by sovereignty: Calculative bordering and differential entanglement in the Eurozone crisis Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Andreas Streinzer
The article analyses the relationship between sovereignty and capitalist extraction using assemblage theory. It discusses dialectical variants of assemblage theory as tools to think about the entangled relations that make economic actors. The article proposes two concepts, calculative bordering and differential entanglement, to make sense of processes that responsibilised the Greek government for the
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Distressed: Migrant underworlds and travels in hyporeality Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Hans Lucht
Based on fieldwork among Ghanaian labor migrants in Italy, this article explores the experiential reality of migrant underworlds in contrast to Baudrillard's still topical, but ultimately flawed, notion of hyperreality. To West African migrants, reality is not disintegrating and being substituted with codes and simulation, as Baudrillard would have it. Rather, these migrants are shackled by an excess
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Hannah Arendt, an anthropologist's ally? Relational subjects, political action, and anti-racism in the twenty-first century Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Gregory Feldman
Hannah Arendt has never held a significant place in anthropology. Perhaps her focus on mid-twentieth-century Europe and the USA, where she misunderstood Black struggles, outdates her for a twenty-first-century global discipline. However, this article argues that core aspects of Arendt's oeuvre can advance debates on relational subjectivity and political action because her efforts to think past the
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Social connections and ethical entrapments: On doing anthropology of and through the border regime Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Viola Castellano
The article aims to conceptualize the relational dimension of the border regime and its function in reinforcing and reproducing global inequalities. It does so by analyzing the social connections that shaped my fieldwork on The Gambia's “backway,” the illegalized trip to Europe. In particular, the article focuses on what I define as moments of ethical entrapment that my main Gambian interlocutor and
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The great transformation: The Durkheimian sociology of religion from Émile Durkheim to Henri Hubert Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Romulo Lelis
This article compares Durkheim's early sociological insights into religion with Hubert's sociological approach to religious phenomena. The goal is to shed light on the transformation that occurred in the Durkheimian sociology of religion during that period. First, it presents Durkheim's early sociological insights on religion (1886–1899) before the inception of the Année Sociologique. His approach
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Violent demonstrations in marginal territories and their place in politics: A case study in Lo Hermida, Santiago de Chile Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Alonso López, Javier Ruiz-Tagle
This article aims to investigate violent demonstrations in marginal territories of Santiago de Chile and their political dimension, studying the territorial deployment of structural violence, transgressive protest actions, and subjectivation processes. These three dimensions tell us about the political, social, and territorial intertwining of violent demonstrations, based on Jacques Rancière's framework
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Epistemic stitching of race, power, and modernity in recent work on white supremacy Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Britt Halvorson, Joshua Reno
This essay examines the recent anthropological literature on white supremacy. We argue that this ethnographic literature presents innovative approaches for a theory of race, power, and capitalist modernity applicable to anthropology as a whole. To highlight this literature's analytical contributions, we pursue a close but not exhaustive review of recent studies of white supremacy, showing how ethnographers
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Homo anthropologicus: Unexamined behavioural models in sociocultural anthropology Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ivan Deschenaux, William Matthews
Inferences from ethnography in sociocultural anthropological arguments frequently rely on an unexamined model of the human mind and behaviour. Across a range of theoretical approaches, human thought and behaviour are implicitly understood as coherently following a single underlying cultural logic, described in terms such as ‘ontology’, habitus, political strategy. We term this implicit model Homo anthropologicus
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Something other than its own mass: Embodiment as corporeality, animality, and materiality Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Thomas J Csordas
Anthropological concern with embodiment began in part with consideration of Merleau-Ponty's theory of perception, and this essay continues in that vein by considering his theory of nature. Embodiment from this standpoint is our general existential condition and an indeterminate methodological field for a cultural phenomenology attuned to the immediacy of lived experience. Without claiming to define
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Aspired communities: Reconsidering community in light of the temporal dimensionality of social life Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Pilvi Posio
I argue in this article that our understanding of community is enhanced by examining the formation of collective aspirations for a shared future. Using examples from my fieldwork on long-term community recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 in the town of Yamamoto, I illustrate the potential of using the social process of collective aspiring as an analytical tool in theorizing and studying
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Towards a critical anthropology of the (de)creative turn in heritage Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Peter Bille Larsen, Florence Graezer Bideau
Heritage processes are today increasingly entangled with multiple forms and discourses of creativity. Connections between creativity and heritage form part of a new consensual authorised discourse, where creativity and (heritage) entrepreneurship are projected as mutually beneficial in a win-win scenario, while co-existing with ever-more visible practices of destruction and loss. Challenging the celebratory
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Challenges in empire: Eduards Volters’ ethnography on Lithuania, 1882–1918 Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Vida Savoniakaitė
This article argues that Eduards Volters (1856–1941), an important ethnographer working in the first part of his career with the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, helped demonstrate the value ...
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A culturally sensitive educational intervention to improve the acceptance and sustained use of safer cooking stoves in the Guatemalan highlands Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Nancy Nagib, Ruisu Chen, Juan Pablo Noriega, Randell Turner, Rahul Kashyap
This study introduces a culturally sensitive educational intervention to households that use open-fire cooking methods in order to improve the acceptance and sustained use of a safer cooking stove....
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Infertility Among Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students: Expectations, Experiences, and Knowledge Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Andrew Ansell, Eman Tadros
Females are disproportionately affected by infertility, and Counselor Education and Supervision (CES) doctoral students are predominantly female. Using phenomenological approach female CES doctoral...
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The Value of Circulating Tumor Cells and Tumor Markers Detection in Lung Cancer Diagnosis Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Sumin Guo, Jingyu Chen, Po Hu, Chen Li, Xiang Wang, Ning Chen, Jiale Sun, Yongfeng Wang, Jianling Wang, Weikuan Gu, Shucai Wu
ObjectiveCirculating tumor cells are complete tumor cells with multi-scale analysis values that present a high potential for lung cancer diagnosis. To enhance the accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis,...
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Effect of Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Self-Efficacy of Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Mohammad Heidari, Parviz Nadimi Harandi, Jaefar Moghaddasi, Soleiman Kheiri, Amirhossein Azhari
IntroductionFor more effective control and treatment of cardiac dysrhythmias caused by diseases, ischemia, or other causes, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is used. One of the effec...
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Resilience correlates with patient-reported outcome measures at a minimum of 2 years after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Charlie D Wilson, Luke J Villamaria, Benjamin D Welling, Kendall AP Hammonds, Brett N Robin
AimsWe aimed to evaluate the correlation between preoperative and postoperative resilience scores and postoperative outcomes at minimum 2-year follow-up after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.Metho...
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Microstructural and interface properties of aluminium alloy coatings on alumina applied by friction surfacing Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Hasan B Atil, Matthias Leonhardt, Richard J Grant, Simon M Barrans
Two large groups of materials, namely metals and ceramics, are used in mass quantities in today’s industry because of their outstanding properties. To achieve higher product performance dissimilar ...
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Understanding, Evaluating, and Promoting the Development of Argumentative Competence: An Interview With Dr. Deanna Kuhn From Teachers College, Columbia University Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Yu Song (宋郁), Yuchen Shi (石雨晨)
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to promote the understanding of the nature, development, and evaluation of argumentative competence so that teachers can feel more confident about incorporating ...
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In defence of ideological struggle against neocolonial self-justifications: Revisiting Asad's Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter amid the decolonial turn Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Stephen Campbell
Over the past decade-plus, there has been a surge in anthropological writing on decolonisation. Yet, whereas mid-twentieth century anticolonial revolutionaries fought to uproot imperialism's extrac...
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Outline of a theory of breakage Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Bruno Vindrola-Padrós
Much of the debate in archaeological theory throughout the last decades has revolved around challenging problematic humanist principles that have shaped our discipline, particularly the idea that h...
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Ritual as metaphor Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Francesco Della Costa
The effectiveness of ritual is a major anthropological question. In this paper, I challenge some of the explanations anthropologists have provided to such a question and I attempt to formulate an o...
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Tacit and embedded as forms: A tropological approach to neoliberalism Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 David Sutton
What might we learn by considering the social and literary forms that makeup neoliberalism, and their relationship to the figurations of anthropological thought and writing? Inspired by tropologica...
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Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Jonatan Kurzwelly, Malin S Wilckens
Essentialist assumptions about human beings persist in scientific practice, despite their erroneous logic. This article examines essentialism related to research on, and handling of, academic colle...
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Semiotic vista Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Carter E. Timon
Throughout life, one may witness grand views, scenes accompanied by intense affect and a sense of awe or wonder. The awe-inspiring things in these experiences vary considerably from suns in sunsets...
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Imagination theory: Anthropological perspectives Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Ingo Rohrer, Michelle Thompson
The term imagination and its derivatives often serve as points of departures, yet a concise understanding of imagination in anthropology is lacking. In this paper, we argue for a contextualized ant...
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Climate change in the courtroom: An anthropology of neighborly relations Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Noah Walker-Crawford
This article follows a groundbreaking climate justice lawsuit between a Peruvian farmer and major energy company in a German court, a strategic political intervention addressing the inequities of g...
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Over the ruins of subjects: A critique of subjectivism in anthropological discourse Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Ricardo Santos Alexandre
The present article develops a theoretical and philosophical critique of the subjectivist paradigm that grounds a good part of present-day anthropological discourse. The main thesis is that by plac...
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The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Alessandro Corso
What smell does border death leave to the inhabitants of borderlands? Is the encounter with the dead bodies of the migrants who perished in the Mediterranean Sea telling in how we articulate discus...
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The gift of waste: The diversity of gift practices among dumpster divers Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Olli Pyyhtinen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
While the circular economy invites us to realize the potential of the so-called ‘waste-based commodity frontiers’, reintegration into capitalist value chains is not the only way for discards to be ...
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Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Nicholas DeMaria Harney, Paolo Boccagni
Hospitality, as an analytic and a lived experience, is central to the day-to-day workings of home, and to managing the tensions and contradictions inherent in place attachment and appropriation on ...
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On the surprising queerness of norms: Anthropology with Canguilhem, Foucault, and Butler Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Thomas Hendriks
“Norms” seem like a handy concept in the anthropological toolkit for describing, analyzing, and understanding ethnographic data. But contemporary anthropology rarely investigates the concept of the...
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The irony of development: Critique, complicity, cynicism Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Benedikt Korf
Has development critique run out of steam? While a certain impasse can be noted between post-development theorists and development ethnographers, this article suggests to re-start the steam engine ...
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Future perfect: From the pandemic to the Paris climate agreement Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Stuart Kirsch
Fifteen years ago, Jane Guyer (2007) argued that the near future had largely disappeared from collective imaginaries, replaced by longer-term horizons associated with evangelical Christianity and f...
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La critique est aisée, mais l’art est difficile. A critical anthropology put to the test of decolonization: Lessons from New Caledonia Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Natacha Gagné, Marie Salaün
This article focuses on anthropologists’ analyses of decolonization struggles in relationship to past and present movements for self-determination. We begin by highlighting the relevance of Georges...
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Believe it and/or not: Opening up to ontological pluralities in Northern Thailand Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Felicity Aulino
In this article, I argue that the study of belief in anthropology generally connotes an “either/or” dichotomy—either one believes something or one does not—which exceeds the concept of belief and s...
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The misperception of the environment: A critical evaluation of the work of Tim Ingold and an alternative guide to the use of the senses in anthropological theory Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 David Howes
This article presents a critical evaluation of the work of Tim Ingold from the standpoint of social and sensory anthropology. It acknowledges the novelty of the emphasis on enskillment, movement, p...
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The bewitchment of our intelligence: Scepticism about other minds in anthropology Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Marco Motta
This article aims at characterizing how the problem of scepticism about other minds appears in anthropology. To do so, I offer a close reading of Nils Bubandt's book, The Empty Seashell (2014), a s...
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Towards a pragmatist anthropology: Objectivity, relativism, ethnocentrism, and intropathy Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Guilherme Figueiredo
In this article, I discuss central concerns that have run throughout the history of anthropology since the beginning of the twentieth century, culminating in the recent ontological turn. These are ...
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The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Eldar Bråten
In this article, I argue for a realist anthropology based on the recognition of mind-independent reality; pitching this premise against concerted anti-dualist tendencies in contemporary anthropological thinking. I spell out core analytical entailments of these, in my view, profoundly conflicting premises. In particular, I focus on perspectival multi-naturalism, arguing that despite adherents’ claims
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Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Angel Aedo, Paulina Faba
The pervasiveness of preventive rationality, which is especially evident in populations caught in the prison-neighbourhood circuit, constitutes a challenging field for anthropological theory because it allows us to rethink the problem of hegemony in the context of the crises of capitalism. Drawing on research conducted in Chile amongst practitioners of crime prevention programmes and prisoners’ families
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Charity and grace Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 João Pina-Cabral
This essay attempts to reconcile charity with grace, the central concepts of two thinkers whose views may seem irreconcilable to many: Donald Davidson, an analytical philosopher and the most distinguished follower of Quine; and Julian Pitt-Rivers, an Europeanist anthropologist, who wrote at length on Spain and Southern France. The latter's historicist exegesis of gracia points to basic aspects of human
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Sovereignty as new beginnings: Action beyond the liberal subject, among undercover police investigators in Europe, for example Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Gregory Feldman
This article argues that Schmitt's “state of exception” is only one expression of the deeper sovereign phenomenon, specifically the human capacity to inaugurate new beginnings in shared space. Sovereign action thus includes anything from Schmitt's vertically-imposed state of exception, which eliminates political subjecthood, to the thrill of horizontally-arranged movements, which enable it. To make
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Ethical infrastructure: Halal and the ecology of askesis in Muslim Russia Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Matteo (Teo) Benussi
This article explores the ecology of late-modern askesis through the concept of ‘ethical infrastructure’: the array of goods, locales, technologies, procedures, and sundry pieces of equipment upon which the possibility of ethicists’ striving is premised. By looking at the ethnographic case of halal living among Muslim pietists in post-Soviet Tatarstan (Russia), I advance a framework that highlights
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The ontological turn revisited: Theoretical decline. Why cannot ontologists fulfil their promise? Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Martin Palecek
Holbraad and Pedersen have revisited the ontological turn, suggesting that it is strictly concerned with methodology only. Holbraad goes even further, accepting an aesthetic criterion for ethnography only. This is a sign of theoretical decline. In my paper, I claim that ontologists’ tendency to overestimate the significance of ethnographic experience causes theoretical confusion. I claim that neo-pragmatic
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Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Tessa Diphoorn, Nikkie Wiegink
The growing engagement with sovereignty in anthropology has resulted in a range of concepts that encapsulate how various (non-state) actors execute power. In this paper, we further unpack the concept of ‘corporate sovereignty’ and outline its conceptual significance. Corporate sovereignty refers to performative claims to power undertaken by (individuals aligned to) corporate entities with profit-making
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Eleven Namibian rains: A phenomenological analysis of experience in time Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Michael Schnegg
The Damara pastoralists (ǂnūkhoen) in Namibia distinguish a diverse range of rains. Some rains kill livestock, others care for insects and still others wash away the footprints of the deceased, allowing the person to exist in the spirit realm. While anthropologists have documented cultural classifications like the Namibian rains for decades, we still lack a convincing theory to explain how they come
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Fabulous: Remarks on scenarism, simulations, and scenarios Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 James D Faubion
In “Governing the Future,” Limor Samimian-Darash does much to illuminate scenarism and the divergence between the simulations and the scenarios that constitute the chief apparatuses of anticipatory governance. She renders both of them fabulations, drawing the concept as well as the divergence between simulations and scenarios from the epistemological and ontological precedents that Henri Bergson and
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Anthropology and the politics of alterity: A Latin American dialectic and its relevance for ontological anthropologies Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-25 Sian Lazar
Recent anglophone ontological anthropologies have an important Latin American intellectual and political history that is rarely fully acknowledged. This article outlines some of that history, arguing that debates about the politics of this ‘ontological turn’ should be read in the context of a tension between political economy and cosmological approaches that have been a feature of Latin American anthropology
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Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Ingie Hovland
How can anthropologists describe ethical values—that is, what emerges as important—in the social, material worlds of Christianity? This article considers the question by working along interfaces. The first part of the article discusses two diverging approaches to values in the anthropology of Christianity (realizing values and producing values) and situates these in relation to three groupings in the
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Classification revisited: On time, methodology and position in decolonizing anthropology Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Peter Pels
Renewed calls for decolonizing anthropology in the 21st century raise the question of what work earlier waves of decolonization since the 1960s have left undone. Some of this work should focus on the classification of human differences, which figured prominently in all phases of the discipline’s history: as a methodology in its racist phases, as an object of study during its late colonial phase of
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Ellen and the little one: A critical phenomenology of potentiality in life with dementia Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Rasmus Dyring, Lone Grøn
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the
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Controlling academics: Power and resistance in the archipelago of post-COVID-19 audit regimes Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-04 John Welsh
Government response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic promises to entrench austerity politics deeper into the organization of academic life, and audit regimes are the likely means of achieving this. Redoubled efforts to understand the operation of audit as a strategic technology of control are therefore clearly a priority. A distinctly anthropological literature has emerged over recent years to analyse
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Governing the future through scenaristic and simulative modalities of imagination Anthropological Theory (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Limor Samimian-Darash
In this article, I examine several expressions of imaginative practices to unpack the umbrella term scenario. Drawing on my long-term fieldwork on Israel’s annual Turning Point exercises, I examine actual uses of scenarios and distinguish between two different logics of imaginative practices and the modalities in which the future is governed by them, which I refer to as the scenaristic and the simulative