HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Announcements
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description: 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 engage…
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items: January 2025 Call for editors HAU Books Editorial Collective
items: In memoriam Jane Guyer
items: In memoriam Bruno Latour
items: In memoriam Sally Falk Moore
items: In memoriam Marshall Sahlins and Paul Rabinow
items: HAU's Free Access and Open Global South Access Programmes:
items: Letter to the Editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education by the Directors of the Society for Ethnographic Theory
items: In memoriam David Graeber
items: CFP: HAU Special Issue, Witnessing Environmental Change, Deadline 30 June 2020
items: CFP: HAU Special Section, Anthropologists as Artists, Deadline 30 June 2020
items: Letter from the SET's Board of Directors to EASA's Current President and Executive Committee
items: Call for editors HAU Books Editorial Collective
items: Call for new editors of HAU journal
items: Statement of the Board of Directors, 13 December 2018
items: Statement of the new Board of Directors, November 14th 2018
items: Statement of Hau Board of Trustees October 25, 2018
items: Statement of Hau Board of Trustees June 29th 2018
items: Answer to the Māori scholars - Mahi Tahi.
items: Statement of the Board of Trustees June 20, 2018
items: Statement from the Board of Trustees
items: Letter from the new Board of Trustees
items: Call for Proposals for Special Issues (2018-2019): New Deadline
items: Proposals for Malinowski Monographs, Deadline Extended to April 30, 2016 + Call for Associate Editors
items: 2017 Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline Extended + HAU Books Now Accepting Proposals for Malinowski Monographs Series
items: Social Media Intern Program - Call for Applications
items: Call for Special Issues; Call for Associate Editors
items: Anthropological Knots: A Symposium
items: HAU: Call for Papers
items: HAU to Launch in Fall
items: The Return of Ethnographic Theory

January 2025 Call for editors HAU Books Editorial Collective
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description: Role and Responsibilities Members of the editorial collective will: Guide the direction and promotion of the book series. Conduct or oversee the solicitation, submission, refereeing, and acceptance of manuscripts. Communicate with authors and guide manuscripts toward publication, including gathering endorsements and helping finalize manuscripts for copyediting and typesetting. Oversee the publication of one book per year (at most two, one per seasonal catalogue). Eligibility As the role provides only an honorarium per edited title, candidates holding secure teaching or research positions may be prioritized. Applicants must encourage the submission of high-quality anthropological monographs and contribute to maintaining and developing HAU Books’ distinctive features. Editors located outside traditional academic centers are especially welcome. Proficiency in English is required. Commitment to Sustainability and Open Access HAU Books is uniquely positioned as an Open Access publisher in anthropology. Its mission ensures that anthropological research and ethnographic findings can be freely shared and made accessible. HAU Books has pioneered sustainable Open Access publishing, supported by institutional funding and library pledges through Knowledge Unlatched, with which we can support the publication of a certain number of books. Libraries can pledge support until mid-December 2024. For works not funded by Knowledge Unlatched, additional Open Access funding or grants may be sought. Authors are responsible for securing translation funding, with administrative support available from HAU. Support and Term The editorial collective will be supported by a Managing Editor and the Director, who handle relations with the University of Chicago Press and Knowledge Unlatched. Membership in the editorial collective is for a four-year term, beginning as soon as applicants are ready in 2025. A transition phase will allow for onboarding and learning the workflow. Application Process Ple…
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date: 2024-12-06

In memoriam Jane Guyer
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description: We mourn the death of Jane Guyer in Davis, California on the 17th of January, at the age of 80. Endlessly inventive and singularly esteemed, Jane Guyer reshaped the landscape of economic anthropology over several decades with her unexpected combinations of economic theory and in situ social research. She could make subfields and the bridges between disciplines flourish with a single lecture or case study, exemplified by her major work Marginal Gains (2004) delivered as Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Launching her ideas into multiple intellectual spaces from her initial fieldwork in the rural areas around Yaoundé and Ibadan, and later from Nigeria as whole during periods of structural adjustment and military rule, Guyer’s findings were magically precise and offered insights into practically every detectable element in economic thinking and acting elsewhere. The “Guyer view” fostered an open and relatable grasp of the imperial and postcolonial economy, capturing the precision, chaos and poignancy of many eras, and the paradox that despite learning and cognitive yearning, new economic horizons could barely be grasped. Her careful and affirmative writings on the history and epistemology of anthropology are revered amongst those who hope and try to know ethnographically as well. HAU celebrated her intellect and tried to share it by publishing her Munro Lecture (“The Quickening of the Unknown,” 2013) and Frazer Lecture (“Aftermaths and Recuperations in Anthropology,” 2017). Her first edited collection on money, Money Matters (1994), catalyzed a highly productive field of study, and we wish her co-edited collections published in HAU, including “A Joyful History of Anthropology” (2016) and “The Real Economy” (2017) the same fate. Also her translations of Marcel Mauss, especially “Joking Relations,” and her authoritative expanded edition of The Gift (HAU Books, 2016), are treasured contributions. Colleagues and friends worldwide will fondly remember Jane Guyer for her deep com…
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date: 2024-01-22

In memoriam Bruno Latour
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description: We mourn the death of Bruno Latour in Paris on the 9th of October. A prolific, unclassifiable and ceaselessly inventive author, Bruno Latour produced work that sits at the crossroads of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and art – and is always grounded in detailed empirical descriptions of the ways in which humans interact with each other, with ideas, with institutions, and with surrounding non-human entities in given contexts. Though he is best known for his groundbreaking essay We Have Never Been Modern (1993) – probably the most implicitly quoted book in all contemporary social science – and for his revolutionary studies of science and technology (Laboratory Life, with S. Woolgar, 1979; Aramis ou l’amour des techniques, 1992; The pasteurization of France, 2001), Latour also wrote about sociology and what it should be (La sociologie en action, 1989; Reassembling the Social, 2005), the production of law (La fabrique du droit, 2002), faith and religious discourse (Jubiler, 2002), the work of the public in democracy (Le public fantôme, 2008), and a neglected philosophical magnum opus An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2012). Driven by his deep concern over the current climate crisis, Latour spent the last decade inventing new ways of getting people to engage in the front of political ecology, from theatrical performances, via exhibitions and experimental workshops in rural communities, to his final books (Face à Gaïa, 2015; Où atterrir? 2017; Où suis-je? 2021). His work has been widely translated, and most of his books have been published in English by Harvard University Press. Bruno Latour’s many friends across the world will remember above all his boundless generosity of spirit, his love of scientific practice, and his enthusiastic embrace of all forms of creativity.
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2022-10-11

In memoriam Sally Falk Moore
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description: We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Sally Falk Moore on May 2, 2021. An intellectually generous scholar of Africa, her theoretical contributions grew out of her fieldwork among the Chagga in Tanzania. In what was a first, she investigated the interactions between indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial social and legal systems in the context of the new socialism after independence. What, she asked specifically, did state attempts to decolonize mean for kinship, landholding, and law? Through her research, she shifted the study of law from its textual products and debates among legal scholars to its execution and effects in lived time, and demonstrated how “customary law” is not prior to state law but a modern product of this encounter with the state. HAU is honored to have published her final book, Comparing Impossibilities (2016), which includes essays published throughout her long career. We will miss Sally, above the scholarship she inspired and the many students whose lives she touched. Kriti Kapila, Anne-Christine Taylor, John Borneman, and Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin Board of Directors, Society for Ethnographic Theory
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2021-07-02

In memoriam Marshall Sahlins and Paul Rabinow
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description: We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Marshall Sahlins and Paul Rabinow, two of our most distinguished contemporary anthropologists. HAU has lost not only two friends but two champions of anthropological theory that grows out of ethnographic engagement—precisely the kind of scholarship HAU promotes. Most recently, Marshall Sahlins contributed to HAU books, co-authoring (with David Graeber) On Kings, a major reconsideration of the power, meaning, and role of this ubiquitous political type in premodern societies. Paul Rabinow (with Anthony Stavrianakis), contributed to a HAU Forum devoted to his work on the anthropology of the contemporary. We will miss Marshall and Paul, above all for their insights and scope and their courage to disagree and advance arguments. Kriti Kapila, Anne-Christine Taylor, John Borneman, and Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin Board of Directors, Society for Ethnographic Theory
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date: 2021-04-09

HAU's Free Access and Open Global South Access Programmes:
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description: The Society for Ethnographic Theory is firmly committed to the idea that access to knowledge and publishing quality must be achieved by ediating 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. HAU journal is published (not owned) by the University of Chicago Press through an unprecedented, hybrid open access+subscription model. The decision to move towards this model was shaped by detailed consultations with HAU's External Advisory Board in 2015-2017. UCP offered to keep the journal open access for 1 month after the release of each issue, to provide a Managing Editor, IT, marketing, typesetting support at any level, and to offer five articles per issue as permanently open access, and even free subscriptions to poor institutions. This is an unprecedented arrangement. A university press is trying very hard to invest in our initiative and preserve its mission and nature. A university press is a non-profit institution, a completely different entity from corporate behemoths like Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier, or Taylor & Francis. Few anthropology series today can offer the wide exposure and features that HAUBooks can offer: open access and an extremely affordable paperback printed and distributed by one of the world’s main social science university presses. Since 2015 we have released over 40 books books which have been featured in the Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal Online, New York Review of Book…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2020-12-07

Letter to the Editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education by the Directors of the Society for Ethnographic Theory
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description: Dear CHE Editors We were dismayed that the Chronicle decided to publish Jesse Singal’s article on our publication HAU (How One Prominent Journal Went Very Wrong, Oct. 5, 2020) in such an inchoate state – not to mention its unfortunate timing. Given the role of CHE in upholding the importance and integrity of higher education, we would have expected to see greater insistence on situating HAU in the wider context of academic publishing. Instead, the article merely reprised the developments of a turbulent period simply in terms of a conflict between two individuals. It gives the false impression, casually smuggled in towards the end, that HAU remains substantially unchanged. Nothing could be further from the truth. HAU came into being as a radical departure from established ways of publishing academic journals. Created by a handful of young scholars, most of them graduates and post-docs in precarious situations, it was affiliated neither with an academic institution or university nor with any professional or subject association. Its independence was its strength, enabling the journal to produce high-quality, original scholarship and very productive re-readings of older anthropological accounts. Unfortunately, that very independence also proved a temporary weakness, that sustained an informality beyond when it was healthy for the journal. This was pointed out in the report drawn up by the Executive Council headed by Carole McGranahan. When we took over as the Board of Directors in September 2018, it was clear to us that this informality had to be the first thing that had to be addressed to re-establish trust in the journal and its workings, following the media campaign launched against HAU and its founder Giovanni da Col. The world of HAU described in Singal’s piece bears absolutely no resemblance to the new organisation of the journal or the ethos of its current structure of editorial collectives. Singal reached out in November last year to individuals working in vario…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2020-11-09

In memoriam David Graeber
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description: We lament the death of David Graeber on September 2, 2020. An Editor of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory but also anarchist and political activist, Graeber drew a large audience to anthropology unlike any since Margaret Mead, whose books, magazine articles, and radio addresses were read and listened to by millions of middle-class families in their living rooms. Graeber made novel use of the opportunities of new social media and the Internet for dissemination of his fecund ideas. Among these ideas his boldest and perhaps most influential has been a re-interpretation of the history of debt challenging some basic assumptions of economists, which have legitimized the great inequalities of our time. Equally, his writings on 'Bullshit jobs' have given shape and meaning to a widespread feeling of uselessness in the contemporary workfield. While these works, combined with his engagement in transnational political movements, account for his stature as a public intellectual, they should not overshadow his important contributions to the ethnography of Madagascar, the anthropology of magic, the sacred roots of kingship and the nature of prehistoric societies. The depth and breadth of his scholarship was astounding, his curiosity insatiable and his ability to surprise and engage his audience unmatched. Board of Directors, Society for Ethnographic Theory
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2020-09-04

CFP: HAU Special Issue, Witnessing Environmental Change, Deadline 30 June 2020
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description: Guest Editors: Sarah E. Vaughn and Daniel Fischer The world is experiencing rapid environmental change. Images abound of land eroding into oceans; wildfires catching ablaze on the fringe of cities; mega-farms running water supplies dry; pollution masks becoming an essential accessory of smog-ridden everyday life; AI-driven technologies informing renewable energy production; floods prompting human coastal retreat; and earlier springs and later autumns taking shape all over the world. In response, anthropological approaches have commonly privileged analyzing the sociomaterial specificity of these events and arguments for why they constitute local and global political ecologies. Yet, questions about how these environmental events are accounted for and mediated remain deeply contested. This Special Issue of Hau takes on such questions by examining the ways environmental change becomes materially imbricated in practices of witnessing. Anthropology has conceptualized witnessing as testimony (Das 2003; Fassin 2008); vocation and expertise (Givoni 2013); embodied responsibility (Dave 2014); and the ethical, aesthetic, and political framing of ethnographic method (Rosen 1977; Csordas 2004; Scheper-Hughes 2004). Crucially, witnessing is more than an act of seeing; it legitimizes particular ways of knowing and collective histories. This critical notion of witnessing is especially relevant within arenas of environmental change, wherein facts about the environment rub-up against what George Marcus (2005) calls anthropological knowledge “as usual.” For instance, people are often overwhelmed by forms of “slow violence” that unfold out of their immediate sight or lifespan (see Nixon 2014; but also Rose Johnston 2011, Gabrielle Hecht 2018, and Thom Davies 2018). Likewise, information about climate change and global warming become distributed in ways that circumvent some media ecologies while inundating others (Edwards 2010; Connolly 2017). Witnessing, in other words, is not only an …
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2020-03-27

CFP: HAU Special Section, Anthropologists as Artists, Deadline 30 June 2020
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description: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS ARTISTS Anthropologists have long had other creative talents and pursuits - as painters, illustrators, photographers, curators, sculptors, designers, novelists, poets, scriptwriters, performers, theatre and film practitioners, among several other roles. However, apart from in visual and sensory anthropology, they have not concertedly come centre stage as part of ethnographic practice. HAU invites proposals for contributions to a special section of the journal, which will be jointly coordinated by Mariane C. Ferme and Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, addressing the role of the arts --visual, sound, and performative--and their challenges for anthropologists who are actively incorporating artistic practices in the conception, creation, and transmission/presentation of ethnographic work. By focusing on the perspective of anthropologists who incorporate these practices in their work, this issue aims at expanding the conversations about the cross-overs, fertilizations, parallels and affinities of anthropology and contemporary art, however it is defined and pursued (see Becker 1982, Schneider 2008, Schneider and Wright 2005 and 2013, Pink 2013, Kaur and Dave-Mukherji 2014, Sansi 2014, Sansi and Strathern 2015, Cox et al. 2016, Cox and Wright 2020). Suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the following: The role of artistic practice in collaborative anthropological work Artistic practices and their input in the conceptualization of anthropological research Audiences created by the inclusion of artistic practice Ethnographic works as forms of art, and their reception by different audiences Artmaking as sensory-ethnographic method Arts and public anthropology Artistic practice as innovative ethnographic methodology Visualising ethnographic theory and/or method From the academy to the gallery or stage Proposals should be submitted by 30th June 2020. To inquire or submit a proposal, please contact the special section coordinators: Lydia Degarrod ldegarrod@…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2020-03-27

Letter from the SET's Board of Directors to EASA's Current President and Executive Committee
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description: Dear Valeria Siniscalchi, Sarah Green and Members of EASA’s Executive Committee As members of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the newly reincorporated Society for Ethnographic Theory (SET), we are writing regarding the AGM-instigated review, or “moral inquiry”, into HAU Journal. To date, we have not been contacted by anyone at EASA regarding this initiative. We contacted the current EASA president, Sarah Green, and she informed us that Valeria Siniscalchi, during her recently concluded tenure as EASA president, authorized this review. We are concerned about the authority of such a review, and its scope. While the EASA AGM may have voted for the review, we are curious about the rationale that authorizes a professional association such as EASA to single out a particular journal for review. Is it evidence of criminality, allegations, or rumors? By what means will EASA determine this? Does this mean that EASA might in the future be authorized to set up a review of American Ethnologist, L’Homme, the JRAI or of the American Anthropological Association, and if so by whom? Might SET conduct a review of EASA? The planned “moral inquiry” has direct implications for HAU and the Society for Ethnographic Theory in its present form, even though it is supposedly only concerned with HAU’s past under the leadership of Giovanni Da Col. While a discussion of the issues at hand - of precarity, or academic structure and hierarchies, or job procurement procedures, or the future of digital publications, or any number of problems that HAU has confronted in the past several years – is certainly necessary, we believe these problems are common across journals and indeed all anthropological associations. In which case, it would seem judicious to widen the scope of the so-called “moral inquiry” to include other journals and associations or simply to delink it from HAU entirely. We the directors strongly believe that HAU Journal performs a vital function among journals in the field, and it has b…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2019-11-17

Call for editors HAU Books Editorial Collective
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description: Dowload Call HAU Books is the book publishing wing of the Society for Ethnographic Theory, a learned society that also publishes the quarterly journal: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. With five interrelated book series, HAU Books is committed to publishing the most distinguished texts in classics and advanced anthropological theory and releases its titles digitally as Open Access and also in hard copy editions, printed and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. HAU Books catalogues includes 36 titles, with classics like Marcel Mauss’s The Gift, Emile Benveniste’s Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Jeanne Favret-Saada’s The Anti-Witch, Ernesto de Martino’s Magic: a Theory from the South been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books and the most prominent disciplinary journals. HAU Books titles are due to appear in Mandarin, Italian, French, and Japanese, reaching well beyond disciplinary boundaries and capturing the attention of thinkers such as Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. The Board of Directors of the Society for Ethnographic Theory calls for applications or nominations to the editorial collective of HAU Books. The Society has determined that the HAU Books will be edited by a collective of 2-5 members who will share the responsibilities for editing and promoting the book series. Members of the editorial collective will guide the direction and promotion of the book series, and conduct or oversee the solicitation, submission, refereeing, and acceptance of manuscripts, all communication with authors, and oversee all stages of the production process. Membership in the editorial collective is for a 4-year term. Positions will begin as soon as applicants are ready to start but no later than June 2019 and will include a short transition phase for learning the workflow. Members of the editorial collective will be professional academic anthropologists who are …
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2019-01-01

Call for new editors of HAU journal
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description: Download the Call for HAU Editors CALL FOR NOMINATIONS HAU Journal Editorial Collective The Board of Directors of the Society for Ethnographic Theory calls for applications or nominations to the editorial collective of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Following the resignation of the previous Editor-in-Chief, the Society has determined that the journal will be edited by a collective of 2-5 members who will share the responsibilities for editing and promoting the journal and for producing three issues per year as per our contract with the University of Chicago Press. Members of the editorial collective will guide the direction and promotion of the journal, and conduct or oversee the solicitation, submission, refereeing, and acceptance of manuscripts, all communication with authors, and oversee all stages of the production process. Membership in the editorial collective is for a 4-year term. Positions will begin as soon as applicants are ready to start but no later than June 2019 and will include a short transition phase for learning the workflow. Members of the editorial collective will be professional academic anthropologists who are committed to the mission of HAU. They will encourage the submission of the best anthropological articles and be proactive in maintaining and increasing the number of contributions to the journal. Editors will follow the bylaws of the Society and work closely with the University of Chicago Press staff to assure timely and efficient publication of the journal. Editors shall maintain and develop HAU’s distinctive features such as the publication of distinguished lectures, debates, colloquia, fora, invited book symposia, translations and reprints and ensure that commentaries are solicited from the widest international range of relevant anthropologists. We welcome editors located outside the main academic centres. Editors may be located anywhere in the world but must have proficiency in English, the main language of the journal. We are r…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-12-13

Statement of the Board of Directors, 13 December 2018
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description: Dear Anthropology Community As said in our statement of 14 November 2018, we are in the process of bringing about several radical changes to the Society for Ethnographic Theory and HAU Journal and HAU Books. To bring these changes into effect, the Society has adopted new bylaws which can be found on our website. Chief among these is the clear separation between the editorial and executive function in the Society. The position of Editor-in-Chief has been abolished. HAU Journal and HAU Books will now be run by separate respective editorial collectives comprising of 2-5 members. We hereby also announce a call for editors for both these collectives, starting with HAU Journal. The Board unsuspended Giovanni da Col on 11 November 2018. Da Col has since tendered his resignation as Director of the Society, with effect from 29 November, and as Editor-in-Chief, with effect from 15 December 2018, which the board accepted. To help with the transition and to ensure the publishing schedule does not fall behind, da Col will work as part of the HAU Journal and Books editorial collectives, but no later than June 2019 for HAU Journal. The Society is firmly committed to the idea that access to knowledge and publishing quality must be achieved by mediating gratuity with sustainability. 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 also include up to 5 Gold Open Access articles, which the Society would like to dedicate to indigenous authors or scholars from the Global South. HAU Books remains committed to offer anthropology monographs fully Open Access (CC-BY, CC-BY ND NC). We would like to take this opportunity to reassure the community that we are committed to remaining at the forefront of anthropological scholarship. To do this, we need your support, which we sincerely hope will be forthcoming. Kriti Kapila (Chair), Niloofar Haeri, John Borneman,…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-12-13

Statement of the new Board of Directors, November 14th 2018
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description: Dear Anthropology Community, The transition to the new Society for Ethnographic Theory has been nearly accomplished. Today we are delighted to announce that amended bylaws have been put in place to introduce equity, transparency and accountability in the new legal entity, incorporated in 2018. A unique aspect of HAU’s organization is that unlike journals linked to a professional organization or university, HAU had no such singular ties and was designed as an independent venture precisely to escape the hold of powerful European and North American universities and research centres. As the former Executive Council noted in their last statement, HAU involved a very complex terrain of unhealthy work relations and professional jealousies, many of which were defined by the very non- institutional nature of the project. New Bylaws were developed as a clear, transparent document to build a better system of accountability, grievance procedures, and governance into the organization, aimed to bring greater formalisation. We cannot rectify all injustices that fall outside our mandate. But we do believe we have diagnosed the main problems of HAU’s organisation and have implemented all necessary measures to address them. We are keen to be an active partner in relevant conversations that were overdue in the discipline. We sincerely hope that we can make a contribution to lessening academic institutions’ reliance on precarious and free labour. While committed to an ethics of free access to knowledge, which remains exemplified by HAU Books, we believe that no “open access” could be truly such when “free” knowledge is dependent on a precarious labour force or on innovation brought by unemployed or underemployed scholars. Open access needs to be grounded in a sustainable financial plan. We remain firmly committed to the idea that access to knowledge and publishing quality must be achieved by mediating gratuity with sustainability. We remain convinced that HAU Journal, a ground-breaking…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-11-15

Statement of Hau Board of Trustees October 25, 2018
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description: Dear Anthropology Community, The present Interim Trustees of the Society for Ethnographic Theory, the vehicle of HAU, all joined the Board in January 2018 or later. They have tasked themselves with overseeing the transition to a stable and accountable organizational structure, similar to other learned societies. Giovanni da Col has expressed his strong interest in resigning. We are negotiating his resignation expeditiously, and are proceeding to consolidate the new legal vehicle for the society and the journal and to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief. As soon as that process is complete we shall seek to constitute a larger and more broadly representative Board to determine the future direction of the society and journal and assume responsibility for their management. We hope that, when it comes, the call will be well received by the anthropological community. We agreed to join HAU because we all wished to support and contribute to an intellectual and institutional venture we found innovative, progressive and good for anthropology. This remains our commitment. When we took office, some of us knew that HAU had encountered problems in recent years; and some of us had no idea of this background. We were taken by surprise by the media campaign that developed this spring demanding the removal of Giovanni da Col as Editor-in-Chief. As the campaign spread, accusations against him grew, targeting not only the EiC but HAU itself, which was judged guilty of elitism, cultural misappropriation and more generally of furthering the unfair distribution of power in the academic world. So far as the Interim Board of Trustees can determine, the Executive Council of the External Advisory Board (EAB) appointed to address complaints against the Editor in Chief undertook this task to the best of its abilities. Some of our longer serving Trustees were able to speak to members of the EAB; others joined after this process reached its end. We understand that it asked for and investigated any evid…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-10-25

Statement of Hau Board of Trustees June 29th 2018
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description: Over the past weeks, the Board of Trustees has been working hard to address and solve the many issues raised by the allegations made against Hau’s Editor-in-Chief. The pressure we have been under and the amount of work involved in dealing with the many facets of this crisis has led several trustees to resign from the Board. In order to restore public confidence in Hau, the Board of Trustees has decided to suspend Giovanni da Col from his position as Editor-in-Chief and as member of the Board of Trustees. We are also negotiating the terms of his resignation. We will compose a search committee to seek new editors for the journal and the book series in order to assist present editors. We strongly endorse the move to redress power inequities, bullying and all manner of harassment. We are also committed to due process and the importance of evidence and fairness to accusers and accused. It is chiefly as a result of the previous Executive Committee’s attention to complaints and grievances that Hau was restructured. Among the measures that we are initiating are: 1 Asking an external professional auditor to review Hau’s financial records, though the previous – and thorough-audit found no evidence of fraud or other financial irregularity; 2 Nominate an interim Editor, both for the Journal and for the Book Series; 3 Looking further into needs for more restructuring and spreading various responsibilities in Hau/SET; 4 We would like to ensure a greater plurality of representation among those who work for Hau. We also want to mention the fact that we are receiving many positive notes from the anthropology community—notes that underline a great deal of interest in keeping Hau alive. We thank them for their support. We will be in touch shortly with further measures. Carlos Fausto Niloofar Haeri Carlo Severi Anne Christine Taylor
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-06-29

Answer to the Māori scholars - Mahi Tahi.
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description: June 20, 2018 http://www.asaanz.org/blog/2018/6/18/an-open-letter-to-the-hau-journals-board-of-trustees Dear Friends, we really appreciate your letter, and we do agree with your critique. We apologise for the founding use of the name HAU without collectively seeking for your advice. HAU’s only move at the time was to invite Paul Tapsell to be a member of the first Editorial board. Although this Maori concept has become anthropologist's common parlance, HAU Journal and HAU Books should have consulted you before using it. As you say, the new Board of Trustees have pressing issues to deal with now, but we would be honoured if you, in due time, could open a venue for conversation and understanding in the spirit of true reciprocity. The Board of Trustees
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-06-20

Statement of the Board of Trustees June 20, 2018
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description: June 20, 2018 The Board of Trustees of the Society for Ethnographic Theory unequivocally condemn all bullying, fraudulent and abusive behaviour and express sympathy for anyone who has been hurt by such behaviour. We are currently reviewing all the documentation we received during the weekend from the previous Interim Board about the subjects of the allegations that have been posted on social media. To facilitate this process, the Editor-in-Chief has recused himself until the inquiry is completed, an offer we have accepted. We have also asked for all current staff to report any grievance in confidence and we expect to hear from them. We are carefully analysing the situation and will come to a decision soon. We cannot work through all of these serious issues at the same pace as the social media. Nevertheless, we would like to assure you that we are doing our best, and working very hard on it The Board of Trustees
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-06-20

Statement from the Board of Trustees
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description: To the HAU community, We wrote yesterday as the newly formed Board of the Society for Ethnographic Theory, created in January 2018. We are writing again today to say that, like many of you, we have been reading about the disturbing allegations of mistreatment that are said to have occurred in the previous incarnations of the project. Because an internal investigation was carried out by the previous board, we have been making efforts to find out what can and cannot be released from this investigation. In the interest of time, we have therefore decided to write a brief note to convey to the Hau community that we care deeply about work-place mistreatment and hostility and will not tolerate it. Should any member of our scholarly or working community ever feel they are being treated improperly, we ask that you please come to us immediately, and we pledge to be fully responsive and to do all we can to create a supportive environment. The current structure of HAU can be seen in the “About” tab on the journal’s homepage—it involves over 100 people and many institutional collaborations, some of whom have been with HAU for years, others new. We truly hope that this new incarnation of HAU will be one in which we can all flourish and learn together. The HAU Board of Trustees
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-06-14

Letter from the new Board of Trustees
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description: Dear Readers, HAU: Journal for Ethnographic Theory was launched in 2011. It was followed by the creation of two book series in 2012: Masterclass and Classics in Ethnographic Theory, and by the formation of the Society for Ethnographic Theory (SET) in 2013 and HAU Books in 2015. Since its foundation, the intellectual project that saw the establishment of the journal has received support from an ever expanding group of scholars. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Ethnographic Theory are pleased to announce a further expansion of membership in the Hau project with the participation of scholars from many different parts of the world. The journal has acquired a phenomenal reputation and an increasingly diverse readership. Given the level of expansion and enthusiasm shown by members of the anthropology community, a group of scholars set out to create a series of collectively governed boards to insure a dynamic and innovative future. We have restructured HAU’s various initiatives and have developed codes of practice. We believe that the very success of its various endeavors has necessitated a rearranging of its financial footing and editorial organization. A project that had begun among likeminded intellectual friends, deeply dedicated to Open Access, outgrew the original informality of its workings. Its labor needed better compensation, its finances needed stabilizing, it required an infrastructure commensurate with its newly-found scope. Last winter, the Executive Council of the HAU’s Advisory Board lead by Carole McGranahan (including Carlos Fausto, Jane Guyer, Michael Lambek, Rena Lederman, Michael Puett, and Andrew Shryock) restructured the Society for Ethnographic Theory. The group wrote new bylaws and revamped the HAU organization in line with both the UK law and the best possible academic publishing practices. The legal incorporation provides the Society with needed protections and professional structures for our work as we grow, making it democrat…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2018-06-11

Call for Proposals for Special Issues (2018-2019): New Deadline
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description: The editors of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory are delighted to launch an international competition for special issues to be published in 2018 or 2019. Selected special issues, after publication in the journal, will be made available in paperback by HAU Books (printed and distributed by the University of Chicago Press). Previous titles, released as both a journal issue and later in revised form in paperback, include: 2015. Translating Worlds:The epistemological space of translation. Edited by Carlo Severi and William F. Hanks. 2016. Values of Happiness: Toward an anthropology of purpose in life. Edited by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker. We wish to reach out and engage the widest community of scholars working in or from any part of the world to contribute, with groundbreaking work, to the emergence of new ethnographically-inspired theories fostering advances in human sciences and the understanding of current changes in society and modes of thought. On the basis of the proposals received, the editors of HAU, in consultation with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further consideration, and will notify guest editors about the acceptance within six months after the submission of the complete manuscript. Those short-listed will be asked to give names and contact details of 3 referees who have agreed, if requested, to give their confidential appraisal of the entirety of the submitted manuscript. Review reports will be requested from only one of these nominated referees as well as external reviewers nominated by the journal. The failure of referees nominated by the proposers to produce a timely report may lead to the rejection of the manuscript for publication. Final reports will be evaluated by the editors and selected members of the Editorial Board and a winner of the competition will be nominated. Proposals should be submitted by 31 May 2017. Near complete manuscripts will be required by 31 December 2017 A final decision based on reader’s reports w…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2017-01-16

Proposals for Malinowski Monographs, Deadline Extended to April 30, 2016 + Call for Associate Editors
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description: REMINDER: EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR HAU BOOKS — PROPOSALS FOR MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS SERIES — DUE APRIL 30, 2016 Following our succesful inaugural competition, the editors of HAU Books are delighted to launch our second international competition for manuscript proposals for new, state-of-the-art monographs in anthropology. Proposals selected for publication will be published in our series, Malinowski Monographs, distributed on HAU’s website (www.haubooks.org) in Open Access format and in paperback via the University of Chicago Press. Extended deadline for proposal submission is April 30, 2016. On the basis of the manuscript proposals received, the editors of HAU Books, in consultation with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further consideration and will notify authors to submit a full manuscript for review. Following review, the editors and selected members of the Editorial Board will then nominate monographs for publication. Proposals should be submitted by 30 April 2016. Short-listed manuscripts will be chosen by 30 June 2016. Complete manuscripts must be delivered by 30 November 2016. A final decision on publication based on reader’s reports will be given by 30 April 2017. Please download instructions for submission here: http://www.haujournal.org/HAU_CallForMonographManuscriptProposals_2016_MalinowskiMonographs.pdf To submit a proposal, please contact Giovanni da Col (Executive Editor) at giovannidacol@haujournal.org ******************** CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS FOR HAU: JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY The editors of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory are delighted to launch our second international call for associate editors and invite scholars from around the world to join our prestigious editorial team. We especially encourage female applicants to apply. We are seeking engaged invididuals from any part of the world who share HAU’s vision and aims, to contribute their skills and passion to the long-term growth of the journal and HAU Books, and …
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2016-04-01

2017 Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline Extended + HAU Books Now Accepting Proposals for Malinowski Monographs Series
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description: Call for Special Issue Proposals - Deadline Extended We are pleased to announce that we are still accepting proposals for our 2017 competition for Special Issues, now giving an extended deadline. Proposals are now due February 28, 2016. The winning collection will be published in 2017 in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and duplicated as paperback, to be printed, marketed, and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. We are searching for field-setting collections and original themes with the potential to advance anthropological theory. Please download the call for proposals and instructions for submission at: http://haujournal.org/HAU_CallforSpecialIssues_2017.pdf For further questions, please contact Giovanni da Col, Editor-in-Chief at: giovannidacol@haujournal.org ---------------------------------------------------- HAU Books now accepting new proposals for Malinowski Monographs Series Following our inaugural competition, the editors of HAU Books are delighted to launch our second international competition for manuscript proposals for new, state-of-the-art monographs in anthropology. Proposals selected for publication will be published in our series, Malinowski Monographs, distributed on HAU’s website (www.haubooks.org) in Open Access format and in paperback via the University of Chicago Press. On the basis of the manuscript proposals received, the editors of HAU Books, in consultation with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further consideration and will notify authors to submit a full manuscript for review. Following review, the editors and selected members of the Editorial Board will then nominate monographs for publication. Proposals should be submitted by 31 March 2016. Short-listed manuscripts will be chosen by 30 June 2016. Complete manuscripts must be delivered by 31 October 2016. A final decision on publication based on reader’s reports will be given by 31 January 2017. Please download instructions for submission here. To submi…
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2016-01-29

Social Media Intern Program - Call for Applications
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description: The HAU Social Media Internship Program aims to provide graduate students an opportunity to build up their knowledge of academic publishing by boosting the online visibility of the new international, peer-reviewed, open-access, and copy left journal in anthropology and its two book series. Each intern will become part of an enthusiastic, strategic, and committed team of social media handlers whose goal will be to encourage more people to read HAU’s features and articles. Each intern/volunteer will sign up to be social media handler for a week at a time. Interns will need to be available by email and have access to a personal computer. Download call for applications
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2014-04-08

Call for Special Issues; Call for Associate Editors
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description: The deadline for submitting applications to HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory for our 2014 Special Issues Competition and for Associate Editor Positions has been extended to January 31, 2014. There is still time to apply, so send HAU your best special issue proposal and/or an associate editor application today! Both calls can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/1imipTg
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2014-01-04

Anthropological Knots: A Symposium
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creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2013-10-07

HAU: Call for Papers
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creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2013-07-27

HAU to Launch in Fall
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description: HAU will be launching this Fall. Our fine inaugural issue includes a themed section on Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship, edited by Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) and Stephane Gros (CNRS), and contributions by Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber, Chris Gregory, Roy Wagner, Annemarie Mol, Laura Nader and others. The issue will also present an extraordinary series of inedited, newly translated and reprinted manuscripts by Edmund Leach, Marilyn Strathern, Maurice Godelier, and Julian Pitt-Rivers amongst others. The inaugural issue shall also announce the foundation of HAU-N.E.T., Network of Ethnographic Theory, an international network of anthropology departments and research institutions supporting the journal and the two affiliated book series: Masterclass and Classics in Ethnographic Theory. If you are attending the AAA meeting in Montreal stay tuned for an informal HAU gathering on Friday 18th in the evening. Further details to be announced on Facebook and Twitter. Download the flyer, circulate, print, post on your blog or facebook. Spread the news. We are coming soon.
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2011-11-03

The Return of Ethnographic Theory
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description: HAU will launch online in Fall 2011 with a special double issue on the Return of Ethnographic Theory, which puts forward the concept of the journal with original contributions from Jeanne Favret-Saada, David Graeber, Wang Mingming, Laura Nader, Marshall Sahlins, Gregory Schrempp, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Roy Wagner, and many others. Alongside the online journal, Hau is coordinating two additional lines of publication: 1) An open-access monograph series, entitled Classics in Ethnographic Theory. By reprinting modern or forgotten classics in ethnographic theory, we hope to revive interest in seminal monographs and illustrate how the work of 'ethnographic theorists' such as Pitt-Rivers anticipated philosophical debates in Continental Philosophy (i.e. Derrida on 'hostipitality'). Each monograph will be prefaced by a prominent contemporary anthropologist. This series will commence with a reprint of Prytz-Johansen's superb yet virtually unknown study of Maori ontologies: The Maori and his Religion (1954), prefaced by Marshall Sahlins. 2) A Masterclass Series of important lectures and course notes. Vivieros de Castro's unabridged Cambridge lectures on perspectivism, prefaced by Roy Wagner, will inaugurate this series.
creator: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
date: 2011-05-11