HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is an international peer-reviewed, partly open-access journal that appears in both digital and print format. It aims to take ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline.
The journal is motivated by the desire to reinstate ethnographic theorization in contemporary anthropology as an alternative to explanation or contextualization by philosophical arguments--moves which have resulted in a loss of the discipline's distinctive theoretical nerve. By drawing out anthropology’s potential to critically engage and challenge its own cosmological assumptions and concepts, HAU aims to provide an exciting new arena for evaluating ethnography as a daring enterprise for worlding alien terms and forms of life, exploring their potential for rethinking humanity, self, and alterity.
HAU takes its name from a Māori concept, whose controversial translations—and the equivocations to which they gave rise—have generated productive theoretical work in anthropology, reminding us that our discipline exists in tension with the incomparable and the untranslatable. Through their reversibility, such inferential misunderstandings invite us to explore how encounters with alterity can render intelligible a range of diverse knowledge practices. In its online version, HAU stresses immediacy of publication, allowing for the timely publication and distribution of untimely ideas. The journal aims to attract the most daring thinkers in the discipline, regardless of position or background.
HAU welcomes submissions that strengthen ethnographic engagement with received knowledges, revive the vibrant themes of anthropology through debate and engagement with other disciplines, and explore domains held until recently to be the province of economics, philosophy, and the sciences. Topics addressed by the journal include, among others, diverse ontologies and epistemologies, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, science and anti-science, art and aesthetics, theories of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, power, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, and the metaphysics of morality and ethics.
Free access journal
The University of Chicago Press publishes one free-access journal: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. This model provides one month of free access after the release of each new issue, and then requires a subscription for continuous access to content. All HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory content published from 2011-2017 is open access.
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The Society for Ethnographic Theory is firmly committed to the idea that access to knowledge and publishing quality must be achieved by mediating gratuity with sustainability. The journal pursues this ideal with two innovative models, where a balance between high publishing standards, knowledge sharing and sustainability is achieved without relying on unpaid labour, famished departmental research budgets and individual membership dues. Each journal issue will be available to download for free for one month after release and be Green Open Access (in compliance of the UKRI requisites for REF submission). Each issue will include up to 5 Gold Open Access articles, which the Society would like to dedicate to indigenous authors or scholars from the Global South. |
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Vol 10, No 3 (2020)
Table of Contents
Editorial Note
Mobilizations around the law, iconoclasm, and the (a)moral
Andrew B. Kipnis, Raminder Kaur, Mariane C. Ferme, Luiz Costa
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707–715
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Currents: India’s Constitutional Crisis
Raminder Kaur, dyuti a
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716–725
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Fathima Nizaruddin
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726–733
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Ravi Sundaram
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734–741
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Sanjay Srivastava
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742–749
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Farhana Ibrahim
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750–757
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dyuti A
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758–766
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Syed Mohammed Faisal
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767–775
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Hilal Ahmed
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776–785
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Research Articles
João Pina-Cabral
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786–799
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Andreas Lipowsky
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800–812
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Giuseppe Tateo
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813–827
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Josh Brahinsky
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828–843
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Karsten Paerregaard
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844–859
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Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
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860–873
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The ontological antinomy: Food, surfaces, and transcendence in the village of Awim, Papua New Guinea
Tomi Bartole
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874–889
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Neil Armstrong, Peter Agulnik
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890–905
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Annie McCarthy
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906–918
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Colloquium: Iconoclasm, Heritage, Restitution
Iconoclasm and the restitution debate
Anna Brus, Michi Knecht, Martin Zillinger
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919–927
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Z. S. Strother
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928–952
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Iconoclasm and the restitution of African cultural heritage What role for the communities of owners?
Placide Mumbembele
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953–956
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Ramon Sarró
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957–961
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Silvie Memel-Kassi
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962–966
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Peter Probst
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967–971
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Syna Ouattara, Irafiala Touré
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972–979
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Rosalind Morris
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980–984
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Iconoclasms as sites for the production of knowledge
Z. S. Strother
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985–988
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Debate: A/Moral Anthropology
Nicolas Langlitz
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989–1004
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Kristine Van Dinther
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1005–1021
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Fiona C. Ross
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1022–1025
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John Borneman
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1026–1029
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Warning against and experimenting with morality
Nicolas Langlitz
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1030–1035
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The devil’s in the detail: Consequences, intent, and moral futures in anthropology
Kristine Van Dinther
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1036–1041
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Forum: Aihwa Ong
Daromir Rudnyckyj, Jerome Whitington
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1042–1045
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Lisa M. Hoffman
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1046–1048
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Chris Vasantkumar
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1049–1051
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Stephen J. Collier
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1052–1054
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Daromir Rudnyckyj
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1055–1057
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Michael G. Peletz
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1058–1060
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Louisa Schein
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1061–1063
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Damani J. Partridge
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1064–1067
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Jerry Zee
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1068–1070
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Alfred Montoya
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1071–1073
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Jerome Whitington
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1074–1077
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Andrew Lakoff
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1078–1081
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Anke Schwittay
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1082–1084
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Caitlin Zaloom
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1085–1087
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Book Symposium
Singing a cosmos into being—for silent or argumentative ancestors?
Piers Vitebsky
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1088–1093
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Death rites as existential inquiry
Jean M. Langford
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1094–1098
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Ritual action, context and comparison
Carlo Severi
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1099–1102
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How exceptional are the Lòlop’ò?
Anne E. McLaren
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1103–1105
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Ritual as theory, theory as ritual
Michael Puett
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1106–1108
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The rights of the dead
Ryan Schram
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1109–1112
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Corpses and voices across worlds
Erik Mueggler
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1113–1118
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Translation
Introduction to “Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage” by Paul Kirchhoff
Dwight Read
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1119–1122
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Kinship nomenclatures and kin marriage
Paul Kirchhoff
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1123–1144
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