HAU

Vol 14, No 1 (2024)

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Ethnographies of the unseen
Raminder Kaur, Adeline Masquelier, Luiz Costa, Louisa Lombard
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1–6

Special Section: Divine Presence: Muslim Ontologies, Anthropology, Transcendence

Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge
Fabio Vicini, Lili Di Puppo
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7–18
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence
Fabio Vicini
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19–32
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims
Maria Louw
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33–46
Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
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47–60
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia
Lili Di Puppo
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61–73
Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan
Annika Schmeding
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74–87
Afterword
Joel Robbins
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88–94

Special Section: Home-Making in the Muslim Diaspora Part I

Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora
Leonardo Schiocchet, Marzia Balzani
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95–103
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination
Leonardo Schiocchet
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104–119
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Zoltan Pall
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120–135
The Egyptian communities in Milan: Ideas of home, home-making, and care at the time of COVID-19
Marta Scaglioni, Eslam ElBahlawan
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136–150
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal
Raquel Carvalheira
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151–161
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America
Sanderien Verstappen
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162–175

Research Articles

Islam L.A. style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses
Ehsan Estiri
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176–190
Avatar, personified: Split personhood on an ethical online support group
Summer Qassim
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191–204
Invention and grace: Taking turns in a streetcorner bureaucracy
Michael Degani
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205–219

Book Symposium - In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua (Sophie Chao)

Plantation capitalism as categorical violence
Sarah Besky
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220–223
Learning about “human”
Rupert Stasch
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224–226
If oil palm is an agent in West Papua, it is a White agent
Rosa Cavalcanti Ribas Vieira
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227–234
Practicing restraint
Marilyn Strathern
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235–239
Grey zones of the imagination
Shaila Seshia Galvin
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240–242
Of sago, songs, and stories
Alice Rudge
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243–248
People, plants, plantations: Responses and reflections
Sophie Chao
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249–256

Film Symposium - Persona Perpetua (Javier Bellido Valdivia)

An anathema for memory loss
Arnd Schneider
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257–260
Litany of ghosts
Caterina Pasqualino
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261–262
Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person
Giuliana Borea
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263–266
Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness
Alyssa Grossman
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267–270
Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America
Jorge Núñez
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271–273
Portrayal of the vital world of a person living with Alzheimer’s, drawing on a close and intimate case
Javier Bellido Valdivia
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274–277

Book Symposium - She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women (Gillian Gillison)

“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo
Juliet Mitchell
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278–283
Gillison’s gift
Jadran Mimica
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284–287
On Gillian Gillison’s primal aggression
John Morton
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288–293
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
Gillian Gillison
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294–302