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.
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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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Vol 15, No 2 (2025)
Table of Contents
Editorial Note
Knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics
Adeline Masquelier, Louisa Lombard, Michae Herzfeld, Tiago Guidi
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233–241
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Articles
Amanda Kearney
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242–256
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Stanley Khu
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257–271
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Iracema Dulley
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272–283
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Adrienne J. Cohen
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284–301
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Fernando Vidal
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302–320
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Syed Mohammed Faisal
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321–338
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Timothy P. A. Cooper
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339–361
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Michiel Baas
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362–378
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Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
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379–397
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Ming Xue
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398–412
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Jean-Marc de Grave
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413–428
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Sung-Joon Park
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429–444
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Lauraine Vivian, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiy
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445–458
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Book Symposium
Transformations
Brad Inwood
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459–461
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Of human relations and the love of learning
Tim Ingold
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462–465
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Being, becoming, and transforming: A discussion of Of jaguars and butterflies
Catherine Rowett
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466–470
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Of souls and spider monkeys
Paolo Heywood
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471–474
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Mission imparsable
Shadi Bartsch, Haun Saussy
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475–477
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Perspectives all the way down: A reply
Geoffrey Lloyd, Aparecida Vilaça
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478–483
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Forum: Arab Encounters
Introduction
Leonardo Schiocchet, Marieke Brandt
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484–491
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Familiar outsider: Arab encounters perspective in colonial Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
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492–495
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Anti-Arab sentiments as “unwelcome encounters” in a tropical Muslim majority country
Martin Slama
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496–498
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Refugees like us: Arab African encounters at a migratory crossroads
Nathalie Peutz
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499–502
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Muwalladin: Being of mixed Arab-African descent in and outside Yemen
Marina de Regt, Aisha al-Jaedy
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503–505
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Islamism, the Houthi movement, and the manipulation of self-perception in the context of the Middle East’s encounter with the West
Alexander Weissenburger
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506–508
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“Cambodianizing” Salafism
Zoltan Pall
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509–512
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Tribal encounters in the “age of openness”: Staying with the “world around”
Marieke Brandt
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513–515
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Desired encounters: How imagining the other affects subjectivities
Sabine Bauer-Amin
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516–518
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Arab encounters and the Otherness of the veil
Shada Bokir
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519–521
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Convert Muslim women encountering Islamic marriage and making hijra: A reflection
Annelies Moors
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522–525
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A Muslim humanitarian in Gaza: Charitable encounters and the relief of Arab suffering
Till Mostowlansky
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526–528
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Kaleidoscopic identities: Orientalism and cultural intimacy in the construction of Arab/Syrian-Lebanese identities in Brazil
Paulo G. Pinto
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529–531
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A moral community between Lebanon and Brazil: Entrepreneurship and piety in multilayered encounters
Leonardo Schiocchet
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532–534
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Forum: Remembering Jane Guyer
The Guyer line
Michael Degani
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535–538
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Jane’s generativity
Charles Piot
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539–541
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Make what price they will: Reading Jane Guyer
Naveeda Khan
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542–545
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Currency domains: A reflection on multiplicity and the money of people’s experience
Karin Pallaver
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546–550
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Jane Guyer: Interactions between African economic anthropology and African economic history
Akanmu G. Adebayo
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551–554
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In search of intelligibility
Federico Neiburg
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555–556
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Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money
Daromir Rudnyckyj
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557–561
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Multiple currency regimes, then and now
Janet Roitman
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562–565
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Jane Guyer’s negative capability
Bill Maurer
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566–567
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Jane Guyer and Africa’s “dynamics of multiplicity”
Peter Geschiere
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568–572
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An appreciation of the gifts of Jane Guyer
Barbara M. Cooper
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573–574
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Revolution, recuperation, and wild speculation: A recollection of the work of Jane Guyer and her courageously anthropological spirit
Victor Kumar
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575–577
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Jane Guyer’s generative capacity
Thomas Cousins
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578–580
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The artisanal anthropology of Jane I. Guyer
Anand Pandian
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581–585
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