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‘Emigration is Luck’: Destiny, Witchcraft and Uncertainty in Migratory Journeys from the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Magdalena Brzezińska
This text analyses religious interpretations of the uncertainty of migratory journeys – documented and clandestine – from West Africa to Europe, based on beliefs in Islamic destiny, ‘luck’, witchcr...
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Anthropologists are Talking – About Contemporary Plantations. Technologies, Violence, and Vulnerability Across Geographies and Genealogies Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sophie Chao, Christopher Krupa, Tania Murray Li
On the surface, plantations are vast settled spaces in which neatly aligned rows of crops and disciplined workers produce profits for corporations. Yet despite their seemingly orderly, regimented, ...
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Moses in Melanesia: Political Theology and Corpus Mysticum in Anthropology Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jaap Timmer
In this article, I offer a conceptual framework for ethnographic and theoretical investigations into the importance of the body of Christ (corpus mysticum) in shaping societal formations. Addressin...
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Elusive Gold and Uncertainty in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anna Frohn Pedersen
Artisanal and small-scale mining is one of the main non-farm rural livelihoods in the global south. Mostly, it is done with no geological data available to locate the minerals. This is also the cas...
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Mining Rituals in Vital Spaces: The Cosmopolitics of Gold and the Precarity of Mine Closure in Ghana Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lauren Coyle Rosen
Recent spiritual contests swirling around a five-year shutdown of the Obuasi gold mine in Ghana, one of the world’s largest, have thrown into high relief key features of improvisational labour and ...
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Vernacular Humanitarianism in the Land of Associations: Negotiating Voluntary Organisation, Municipal Influence, and the Reception of Refugees among Venligboerne in Denmark Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Marianne Holm Pedersen
During the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, movements to welcome refugees became widespread in Northern Europe. While numerous studies have documented the activities and motivations of these civic...
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Mediums, Objects, and the Problem of Presence in the Western Himalayas Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Asaf Sharabi
In some religious contexts, mainly Protestant Christianity, anthropologists often contend with the problem of presence that preoccupies believers – the simultaneous presence and absence of God. How...
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River life and the upspring of nature Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Andrew Alan Johnson
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Trap: Care and Mystification in Carceral Governance Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Tali Ziv
As a component of the broader carceral state, criminal legal probation has become a defacto social safety net. In this essay, I argue that criminal probation mystifies time and space to create a su...
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CHIEFSHIP, PTY unLTD.: Reflections on Sovereign Un/Accountability, Past and Present Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 John L. Comaroff
A number of ‘customary’ African kings and chiefs – historically accountable to the will of their subjects – have sought to turn their offices into lucrative sources of accumulation; indeed, into a ...
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Infrastructural Care: Repairing Railway Trains, Maintaining Mumbai’s Lifeline Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Proshant Chakraborty
Mumbai’s suburban railway network is one of the largest, most densely-packed public transport systems in the world. Known as the city’s ‘lifeline,’ these trains carry eight million commuters every ...
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Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Kelly McKowen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Making Megaprojects: The Practices and Politics of Scale-Making Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Susann Baez Ullberg, Gabriella Körling, Cristiana Strava
ABSTRACT The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term ‘megaprojects’. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into
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Geopolitics, Infrastructure and Scale-Making in the Southern Gas Corridor Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Bilge Firat
ABSTRACT Like all infrastructure, geopolitical infrastructures tell important stories about particular intentions in physical form. Cross-border fossil gas pipelines that are built to promote interests that go beyond state borders and territories are considered geopolitical infrastructures par excellence. Taking to its ethnographic focus the Southern Gas Corridor, a fossil gas transit regime and logistical
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Scales of Exception: Water Infrastructure, Place, and ‘Half-island’ in Cyprus Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ezgican Özdemir
ABSTRACT This article studies how communities in northern Cyprus constitute their collective identities through their changing understandings of where northern Cyprus is – through the collective idiom of ‘half-island’. Looking at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus as a megaproject, I show how the pipeline and its connection of the two spaces steer communities of northern
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In the Time of Megaprojects: Classed Temporal Scales along a Moroccan Highspeed-Rail Corridor Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Cristiana Strava
ABSTRACT Capitalizing on its comparative political and social stability in the region, the Moroccan regime has been attracting global and regional investors with the promise of new ‘megaprojects’ that aim to radically transform local natural, economic and social landscapes. Inaugurated in 2018, Morocco’s (and Africa’s) first high-speed rail line (LGV) is a flagship megaproject. Part of a wider ‘development
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Water Works: Megaprojects and Timescaling in Peru Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Susann Baez Ullberg
ABSTRACT Driven by an increasing industrial and urban demand for water and other economic and political interests, the Peruvian State has invested heavily in water infrastructures. One such infrastructure is the Majes Siguas Special Project in the Department of Arequipa. This megaproject was envisioned already in the early twentieth century to supply the coastland with irrigation water and thereby
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The Big, the Small, and the Ugly: The Politics of Scale-Making in a Contested Railway Project in Italy Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Mateusz Laszczkowski
ABSTRACT This article explores the politics of scale-making in infrastructural development. It argues that ‘megaprojects’, rather than self-evidently ‘big’, are constructed and contested across a continuity of scales from the ‘global’ to the microscopic. Scalar struggles are constitutive of the projects as well as of their contestation. I examine this through a focus on a disputed high-speed railway
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Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 David Lipset
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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That Which They Will Not See: Climate Denial as a Vector of Epistemological Crisis in the Contemporary United States Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Susannah Crockford
ABSTRACT Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US – Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri – based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction
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Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Eva Fiks
ABSTRACT This paper explores therapeutic interventions for subfertility as a domain where meanings and boundaries of care and violence are constituted. It centres around a fragment of one Rajasthani woman’s reproductive journey contextualised within marriage migration, upward social mobility, and affinal/natal kin relations. Grounded in 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, and ongoing
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Intimate Evictability: Urban Displacement, Familial Violence and Women’s Claim to Home in Urban Sri Lanka Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Asha L. Abeyasekera
ABSTRACT ‘Evictability’ describes the role urban displacements play in the governance of ‘unwanted’ citizens in Europe where eviction is imminent yet uncertain. This paper proposes ‘intimate evictability’. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the paper illuminates how the governance of the working-class poor via eviction and relocation interfaces with the intimate sphere to produce
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Haunting the Factory: Indonesian Modernity and the Spiritual Landscape of Central Kalimantan Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anu Lounela, Heikki Wilenius
ABSTRACT This article explores enchantments accompanying industrial development and the national discourse of modernity in the ecologically fragile swamp landscape of Central Kalimantan, situated in the southern part of Indonesian Borneo. Focusing on the experiences of the Ngaju Dayak, a local indigenous group, and mass-mediated narratives on enchantments of (national) development, we explore the promises
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Afterword: Wet Ethnographies Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Franz Krause
ABSTRACT This afterword discusses common questions and emerging themes from a special issue titled Fluid Dispossession. It focuses on the implications of water movements for economic processes and the redistribution of costs and benefits. The article elaborates how the discussed ethnographies illustrate the situatedness of material flows that channel specific benefits to some groups of people and particular
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‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Camelia Dewan, Knut G. Nustad
ABSTRACT This special issue on ‘“Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use ‘fluid dispossessions’ as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water’s biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it),
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Fluid Scalability; Frontiers and Commons in Salmon Waterworlds Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Marianne Elisabeth Lien
ABSTRACT The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet the presence of aquaculture excludes and transforms other life-forms. While terrestrial expansions mark their presence through infrastructure such as fences and walls, aquatic infrastructures are
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Shifting Sands, Land from the Sea: A Microhistory of Coastal Land Titling in Thailand Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp
ABSTRACT This microhistory of a shoreline place in Thailand details the socio-natural process by which a piece of coastal land came to be recognised as private property by the state. It demonstrates that intimate and long-term attention to specificities of how property comes into being has more explanatory power than synoptic theorisations of accumulation and dispossession. Using ethnography, archives
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Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Camelia Dewan
ABSTRACT This article examines processes of ‘more-than-economic dispossession’ arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs – the fluid commons – of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. It ethnographically explores how minority Zele fishermen and shipbreaking workers are experiencing three interrelated forms of ‘more-than-economic’ dispossession. First, extra-economic
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The Art of Gleaning and Not Becoming Domesticated in Mollusc Waterworlds Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Sandro Simon
ABSTRACT In the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, development actors strive to ‘develop’ female mollusc gleaning. In an apparently boundless amphibious environment, domestication underlined by discursive dispossession figures as an attractive alteration of enclosure and material dispossession. It intervenes especially temporally in human and mollusc life and overlays the (material) dialectic of capitalist
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Knut G. Nustad, Duncan Brown, Heather A. Swanson
ABSTRACT Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbers. Both the initial introduction of trout and contemporary debates are entangled with ‘properties’, in the dual sense of land claims and biophysical traits of fish and waters. Trout introductions
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Bringing Intersectionality to the Core of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Scaling Holistic Intersectionality Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Viola Thimm
ABSTRACT Social and cultural anthropology is a descriptive, theorising and comparative social science. It has a holistic orientation, i.e. it directs its gaze to complex interrelationships between different subfields of cultural dynamics. However, this understanding is not a stand-alone feature of the anthropological approach, but is also valid for the intersectionality framework. This article seeks
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Chiropteran Reservoirs. Bat Keepers and Bat Carers in Ghana and Australia Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Frédéric Keck, Arnaud Morvan
ABSTRACT This article studies how zookeepers and wildlife rescuers build relations with bats using experimental apparatuses such as cages. Arguing that interspecies communication with bats as reservoirs of infectious diseases can be described through material environments, such as a bat shelter in Ghana and a bat refuge in Australia, rather than in the short contacts between bats and ‘virus hunters’
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Reefs as Multispecies Ruins: Abalone and Livelihood Making in South Africa Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Evelien Storme
ABSTRACT This study explores the illegal harvesting of wild abalone and plans for an abalone farm in South Africa as examples of communities seeking to establish a livelihood in degraded landscapes, a hallmark of the Anthropocene. The perspective of the reefs as multispecies ruins complicates the apparent dichotomy between the destructive character of illicit abalone harvesting on the one hand, and
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Forging Preferred Landscapes: Burning Regimes, Carbon Sequestration and ‘Natural’ Fire in Cape York, Far North Australia Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Mardi J. Reardon-Smith
ABSTRACT Fire management is a right and responsibility shared by all land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far north Australia, bringing together Aboriginal traditional owners, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers and settler-descended cattle graziers. The landscape of Northern Australia has been socialised by fire over millennia, resulting in a fire-adapted and fire-dependent landscape. While
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Weaving Partial Stories: More-than-human Entanglements and Environmental Governance Experiments in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Sanders, Sophie Pascoe, Håkon da Silva Hyldmo, Rut Dini Prasti H.
ABSTRACT Different goals and assumptions enable and legitimise the ways that climate change is understood and governed through increasingly urgent, experimental, and heterogeneous interventions. We examine the ontological politics of ‘piloting’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) by weaving together stories from our ethnographic fieldwork in Central Suau, Papua New
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‘We are Part of Nature’: Caring for Wastewater in an Infrastructural Experiment in the Flevopolder Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Fenna Smits, Mandy de Wilde
ABSTRACT In this article, we pursue a route for understanding the decentralisation of wastewater treatment that moves away from thinking in terms of individual responsibility and technical determinism and mobilises the analytical lens of care to articulate more-than-human relationality as an organising principle of governing environmental infrastructures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch
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Cyborgs of the Western Pacific: Underwater Human Enhancement Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Hans Tunestad
ABSTRACT Scuba diving offers new possibilities for being human. The diving equipment, making it possible to breathe and move about underwater, temporarily transforms divers into a kind of cyborgs, that is, integrated human–machine organisms. This transformation is here outlined by looking at both the experiential and structural aspects of recreational scuba diving. Though drawing on the occasional
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Ambivalences of Care: Movement, Masculinity and Presence in Tajikistan Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Elena Borisova
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tajikistan – the region where migration to Russia has become almost the only stable source of livelihood – this article contributes to a growing body of anthropological literature concerned with tensions, ambivalences and contradictions of care. Drawing on the ethnography of my interlocutor’s attempts to arrange care for his elderly parents, I show
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Introduction: Infrastructuring Value Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Christof Lammer, André Thiemann
Exploring infrastructure has much to offer for economic anthropology. Inspired by the convergence of literatures on value and infrastructure in studies of financialisation, we develop the analytics...
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Infrastructures of Farmland Valuation in Australia Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sarah Ruth Sippel
This article investigates how valuation practices change as land becomes financialised in Australia. Financial investors bring their own assumptions on how land value should be ‘measured’ to enhanc...
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Nature’s Value: Evidencing a Moldovan Terroir Through Scientific Infrastructures Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Daniela Ana
Terroir can increase the exchange value of wine in competitive markets in global capitalism. Relying on ethnographic research in Moldova, this article shows how value is produced through infrastruc...
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Peasant in a Bottle: Infrastructures of Containment for an Italian Wine Cooperative Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Oscar Krüger
On the market for quality wine, quality is generally defined by the liquid’s connection to a time, space, and person(s) of origin. This connection is achieved through material-discursive versions o...
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Infrastructuring Value Worlds: Connections and Conventions of Capitalist Accumulation Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Edward F. Fischer
Two of the most productive lines of social science inquiry in recent years come from the study of ‘values’ and that of ‘infrastructures.’ Not coincidentally, both are capacious terms. Values are pl...
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In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Nicolas Mahillon
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Bridging Fluid Borders: Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Karlijn Korpershoek
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Alf Hornborg
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2024)
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Leavers and Remainers as ‘Kinds of People’: Accusations of Racism Amidst Brexit Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Katharine Tyler, Cathrine Degnen, Joshua Blamire
ABSTRACT After the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, leavers and remainers have become identified in media, political, intellectual, social scientific and everyday discourses with a contested set of racialised and classed characteristics. Central to this portrayal of leavers and remainers is the idea widespread within remain-orientated discourse that leavers are more likely to hold racist
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Humanitarian Assistance as Performance? Expectations and Mismatches Between Aid Agencies and Refugee Beneficiaries Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Naohiko Omata
ABSTRACT When relief organisations provide assistance for refugees, aid providers expect particular responses from their beneficiaries that align with the desired outcomes of a given intervention. Yet, in practice, refugees often do not ‘perform’ to the script prepared by the organisations. When refugees’ responses to aid interventions fall outside of expectations, some aid workers struggle to understand
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Empathy Beyond the Human. The Social Construction of a Multispecies World Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Michael Schnegg, Thiemo Breyer
ABSTRACT In Namibia, Damara pastoralists share the environment with many beings including elephants, tricksters, and winds. While the importance of other-than-human subjectivity is well established, its methodological, epistemological, and ontological challenges are less settled. To address them, we combine expertise from anthropology and philosophy to ask how this world becomes what it is, using Edith
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Herding at the Edges: Climate Change and Animal Restlessness in the Peruvian Andes Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Allison Caine
ABSTRACT This article examines the impacts of climate change on high-elevation Andean communities through the lens of human-animal relations. Andean herders and their animals coproduce hierarchical, cooperative, and antagonistic forms of social interaction, mediated through human-animal communication. The breakdown of communicative practice alerts herders to broader socioecological changes under persistent
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Weather, Religion and Climate Change. From the Master of Light to the Concept of ‘Atmosphere’ Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Trine My Thygaard-Nielsen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Menstrual kinship: Bonds of Intimacy and Care Work of Women in Central Kerala Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Sherin Sabu, Rowena Robinson
ABSTRACT This paper explores menstruation as a domain of kinship within and across three generations of women in central Kerala, India. Based on fieldwork, it shows that certain gendered practices of intimacy and care work in the context of menstruation produce kinship bonds among them, which the authors enunciate as ‘menstrual kinship.’ In the past, it was shared chiefly among consanguineal and affinal
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Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Tine M. Gammeltoft
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 1, 2024)
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Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Sanderien Verstappen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2024)
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Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Vinita Chandra, Akanksha Yadav
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 1, 2024)
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Heike Drotbohm
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2024)
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‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Michael Crawley
ABSTRACT This article describes how energy, and the ‘condition’ of the runner, achieved through the successful management of energy, is understood as trans-bodily and social by Ethiopian long-distance runners. The way energy flows between people and the environment means it is deeply implicated in how people understand relational ethics. By describing both morally appropriate training sociality as
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On Becoming Unstuck: Teleoaffective Tactics, Thrills, and the Serial Entrants of Promotional Competitions in Australia Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Cynthia Sear
ABSTRACT In Australia, promotional competitions are a common form of advertising, used by companies to encourage purchase, foster brand loyalty, and build market research databases. While many people enter these competitions casually and infrequently, some people, known as ‘compers’, enter regularly and diligently. This article explores the affective benefits associated with entering competitions through
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Power, Ontologies and Gendered Resistance in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Weapons of the Ninbala and Yeme Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Constance Awinpoka Akurugu, Cathrine Degnen
ABSTRACT This article examines diffuse and complex resistance practices that are exercised within the context of exogamous virilocal marriage and its constraints. In particular, we consider the deployment of songs and dissimulation as subversive strategies by women in a Dagaaba settlement in northwestern Ghana. We argue that, despite the constraints of marital violence and gendered subordination associated
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Humanising Through Conjecture: Recognition and Social Critique among Houseless People Ethnos (IF 1.934) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Luisa T. Schneider
ABSTRACT There are aspects of fieldwork which elude our ethnographic toolkit. How can we, for instance, theorise on mental illness and addiction among the houseless without pathologising or medicalising? Based on 3½ years of fieldwork this article argues for a speculative approach that interweaves critical phenomenology, compassionate storytelling and analytical autoethnography. It reflects on a rough