HAU

Vol 2, No 2 (2012)

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Front & Back Matter

Front & Back Matter
 
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Editorial

A note from the editor. HAU: Year one
Giovanni da Col
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iii-vii

Articles

Against Hollywood: American independent film as a critical cultural movement
Sherry B. Ortner
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1-21
Favors and "normal heroes": The case of postsocialist higher education
Caroline Humphrey
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22-41
Ethics and the "rough ground" of the everyday: The overlappings of life in postinvasion Iraq
Hayder Al-Mohammad, Daniela Peluso
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42-58
The didactic death: Publicity, instruction and body donation
Jacob Copeman, Deepa S. Reddy
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59-83
The resonance of captivity: Aliens and conquest
Susan Lepselter
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84-104
Dead zones of the imagination: On violence, bureaucracy, and interpretive labor. The 2006 Malinowski Memorial Lecture.
David Graeber
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105-128

Themed Articles

Preface: Cultivating uncertainty
François Berthomé, Julien Bonhomme, Grégory Delaplace
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129-137
Performing opacity: Initiation and ritual interactions across the ages among the Bassari of Guinea
Laurent Gabail
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138-162
"Make yourself uncomfortable": Joking relationships as predictable uncertainty among the Trumai of Central Brazil
Emmanuel de Vienne
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163-187
"The rules" in Morocco? Pragmatic approaches to flirtation and lying
Matthew Carey
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188-204
The dangers of anonymity: Witchcraft, rumor, and modernity in Africa
Julien Bonhomme
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205-233
Bureaucratic anxiety: Asymmetrical interactions and the role of documents in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
Olivier Allard
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234-256
Insect magnetism: The communication circuits of Rhinoceros beetle fighting in Thailand
Stéphane Rennesson, Emmanuel Grimaud, Nicolas Césard
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257-286
Human-animal “joint commitment” in a reindeer herding system
Charles Stépanoff
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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
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313-324
Theory and ethnography in the modern anthropology of India
Peter Berger
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325-357

Forum

Anthropology as critique of reality: A Japanese turn
Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita
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358-370
Acting with things: Self-poiesis, actuality, and contingency in the formation of divine worlds
Miho Ishii
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371-388
An interview with Naoki Kasuga
Naoki Kasuga, Casper Bruun Jensen
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389-397
Response: Power and truth in Japanese ethnography
Annelise Riles
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398-401
Response: A comment on "the ontological turn" in Japanese anthropology
Marilyn Strathern
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402-405

Unedited

On not understanding symbols: Toward an anthropology of incomprehension
Roger M. Keesing, Jordan Haug
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406-430

Translations

Crisis of presence and religious reintegration. Prefaced and Translated by Tobia Farnetti and Charles Stewart
Ernesto de Martino
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431-450
The arts of memory: Comparative perspectives on a mental artifact. Revised and updated by the author. Translated by Matthew Carey
Carlo Severi
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451-485

Reprints

The social skin
Terence S. Turner
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486-504