Table of Contents
Front & Back Matter
| Front & Back Matter | |
Editorial
| A note from the editor. HAU: Year one | |
| Giovanni da Col | iii-vii |
Articles
| Against Hollywood: American independent film as a critical cultural movement | |
| Sherry B. Ortner | 1-21 |
| Favors and "normal heroes": The case of postsocialist higher education | |
| Caroline Humphrey | 22-41 |
| Ethics and the "rough ground" of the everyday: The overlappings of life in postinvasion Iraq | |
| Hayder Al-Mohammad, Daniela Peluso | 42-58 |
| The didactic death: Publicity, instruction and body donation | |
| Jacob Copeman, Deepa S. Reddy | 59-83 |
| The resonance of captivity: Aliens and conquest | |
| Susan Lepselter | 84-104 |
| Dead zones of the imagination: On violence, bureaucracy, and interpretive labor. The 2006 Malinowski Memorial Lecture. | |
| David Graeber | 105-128 |
Themed Articles
| Preface: Cultivating uncertainty | |
| François Berthomé, Julien Bonhomme, Grégory Delaplace | 129-137 |
| Performing opacity: Initiation and ritual interactions across the ages among the Bassari of Guinea | |
| Laurent Gabail | 138-162 |
| "Make yourself uncomfortable": Joking relationships as predictable uncertainty among the Trumai of Central Brazil | |
| Emmanuel de Vienne | 163-187 |
| "The rules" in Morocco? Pragmatic approaches to flirtation and lying | |
| Matthew Carey | 188-204 |
| The dangers of anonymity: Witchcraft, rumor, and modernity in Africa | |
| Julien Bonhomme | 205-233 |
| Bureaucratic anxiety: Asymmetrical interactions and the role of documents in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela | |
| Olivier Allard | 234-256 |
| Insect magnetism: The communication circuits of Rhinoceros beetle fighting in Thailand | |
| Stéphane Rennesson, Emmanuel Grimaud, Nicolas Césard | 257-286 |
| Human-animal “joint commitment” in a reindeer herding system | |
| Charles Stépanoff | 287-312 |
Colloquia
| More on Polynesian gift-giving: The Samoan sau and the fine mats (toonga), the Maori hau and the treasures (taonga) | |
| Serge Tcherkézoff | 313-324 |
| Theory and ethnography in the modern anthropology of India | |
| Peter Berger | 325-357 |
Forum
| Anthropology as critique of reality: A Japanese turn | |
| Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita | 358-370 |
| Acting with things: Self-poiesis, actuality, and contingency in the formation of divine worlds | |
| Miho Ishii | 371-388 |
| An interview with Naoki Kasuga | |
| Naoki Kasuga, Casper Bruun Jensen | 389-397 |
| Response: Power and truth in Japanese ethnography | |
| Annelise Riles | 398-401 |
| Response: A comment on "the ontological turn" in Japanese anthropology | |
| Marilyn Strathern | 402-405 |
Unedited Scholarship
| On not understanding symbols: Toward an anthropology of incomprehension | |
| Roger M. Keesing, Jordan Haug | 406-430 |
Translations
| Crisis of presence and religious reintegration. Prefaced and Translated by Tobia Farnetti and Charles Stewart | |
| Ernesto de Martino | 431-450 |
| The arts of memory: Comparative perspectives on a mental artifact. Revised and updated by the author. Translated by Matthew Carey | |
| Carlo Severi | 451-485 |
Reprints
| The social skin | |
| Terence S. Turner | 486-504 |
ISSN: 2049-1115