HAU

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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.

Announcements

 

January 2025 Call for editors HAU Books Editorial Collective

 

The Board of Directors of the Society for Ethnographic Theory is calling for applications or nominations to join the editorial collective of HAU Books. With five interrelated book series, HAU Books is committed to publishing distinguished texts in classics and advanced anthropological theory. Most titles are released digitally as Open Access and as paperback editions, printed and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

 
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Vol 15, No 2 (2025)

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics
Adeline Masquelier, Louisa Lombard, Michae Herzfeld, Tiago Guidi
233–241

Articles

Amanda Kearney
242–256
Stanley Khu
257–271
Iracema Dulley
272–283
Adrienne J. Cohen
284–301
Fernando Vidal
302–320
Syed Mohammed Faisal
321–338
Timothy P. A. Cooper
339–361
Michiel Baas
362–378
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
379–397
Ming Xue
398–412
Jean-Marc de Grave
413–428
Sung-Joon Park
429–444
Lauraine Vivian, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiy
445–458

Book Symposium

Transformations
Brad Inwood
459–461
Of human relations and the love of learning
Tim Ingold
462–465
Being, becoming, and transforming: A discussion of Of jaguars and butterflies
Catherine Rowett
466–470
Of souls and spider monkeys
Paolo Heywood
471–474
Mission imparsable
Shadi Bartsch, Haun Saussy
475–477
Perspectives all the way down: A reply
Geoffrey Lloyd, Aparecida Vilaça
478–483

Forum: Arab Encounters

Introduction
Leonardo Schiocchet, Marieke Brandt
484–491
Familiar outsider: Arab encounters perspective in colonial Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
492–495
Anti-Arab sentiments as “unwelcome encounters” in a tropical Muslim majority country
Martin Slama
496–498
Refugees like us: Arab African encounters at a migratory crossroads
Nathalie Peutz
499–502
Muwalladin: Being of mixed Arab-African descent in and outside Yemen
Marina de Regt, Aisha al-Jaedy
503–505
Islamism, the Houthi movement, and the manipulation of self-perception in the context of the Middle East’s encounter with the West
Alexander Weissenburger
506–508
“Cambodianizing” Salafism
Zoltan Pall
509–512
Tribal encounters in the “age of openness”: Staying with the “world around”
Marieke Brandt
513–515
Desired encounters: How imagining the other affects subjectivities
Sabine Bauer-Amin
516–518
Arab encounters and the Otherness of the veil
Shada Bokir
519–521
Convert Muslim women encountering Islamic marriage and making hijra: A reflection
Annelies Moors
522–525
A Muslim humanitarian in Gaza: Charitable encounters and the relief of Arab suffering
Till Mostowlansky
526–528
Kaleidoscopic identities: Orientalism and cultural intimacy in the construction of Arab/Syrian-Lebanese identities in Brazil
Paulo G. Pinto
529–531
A moral community between Lebanon and Brazil: Entrepreneurship and piety in multilayered encounters
Leonardo Schiocchet
532–534

Forum: Remembering Jane Guyer

The Guyer line
Michael Degani
535–538
Jane’s generativity
Charles Piot
539–541
Make what price they will: Reading Jane Guyer
Naveeda Khan
542–545
Currency domains: A reflection on multiplicity and the money of people’s experience
Karin Pallaver
546–550
Jane Guyer: Interactions between African economic anthropology and African economic history
Akanmu G. Adebayo
551–554
In search of intelligibility
Federico Neiburg
555–556
Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money
Daromir Rudnyckyj
557–561
Multiple currency regimes, then and now
Janet Roitman
562–565
Jane Guyer’s negative capability
Bill Maurer
566–567
Jane Guyer and Africa’s “dynamics of multiplicity”
Peter Geschiere
568–572
An appreciation of the gifts of Jane Guyer
Barbara M. Cooper
573–574
Revolution, recuperation, and wild speculation: A recollection of the work of Jane Guyer and her courageously anthropological spirit
Victor Kumar
575–577
Jane Guyer’s generative capacity
Thomas Cousins
578–580
The artisanal anthropology of Jane I. Guyer
Anand Pandian
581–585