HAU

Vol 16, No 1 (2026)

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Substances and relationalities
Adeline Masquelier, Louisa Lombard, Michael Herzfeld, Tiago Guidi
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1–3

Special Section: Performing Substances

Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations
Federica Toldo, Juliana Caruso
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4–9
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago
Juliana Caruso, Philip Badiz
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10–25
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina
Daniela Salvucci
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26–40
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola)
Federica Toldo
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41–56
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon
Oscar Ivan Garcia Rodriguez
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57–75
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names
Vanessa R. Lea
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76–89

Special Section: The Im/materiality of Pacific Religious Movements

Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements
Christiane Falck, Fraser Macdonald
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90–102
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia
Fraser Macdonald
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103–115
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati
Wolfgang Kempf
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116–129
Win Neisen 2020: Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Ton Otto
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130–144
Of blood and stone: The emplaced reality of Marian statue devotion in Bougainville
Anna-Karina Hermkens
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145–166
The invisible material world: Christianity, sorcery, and revelations of immanence in Vanuatu
Tom Bratrud
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167–182
Fluctuating divinity: Exploring God and a Solomon Islands-based movement in Israel through Object Oriented Ontology
Jaap Timmer
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183–194
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea
Christiane Falck
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195–209
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material
Lamont Lindstrom
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210–215

Articles

Growing up in Europe: The European concept of kinship and how it shapes society and the state
Klāvs Sedlenieks
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216–229
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality
Anne Toft Ramsbøl, Lone Grøn, Cheryl Mattingly
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230–244
On the trail of blood: History and kinship in Jacmel, Haiti
Flávia Dalmaso
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245–258
Menstruation in a transitioning body: The embodied experience of menstruation among Chinese kua xingbie (cross-gender) people
Xiaolin Li
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259–274
Thinking through bloody handprints on saints’ graves: The political ontology of ritual artifacts in the Negev Bedouin ziyāra
Daniel Zohar
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275–292

Book Symposium

The farmer and the ditch digger
Sarah Pinto
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293–297
Care and living materialities
Vasundhara Bhojvaid, Sant Ram Antil, Rumela Chatterjee, Sandra Joseph
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298–302
Has my own anthropology of tuberculosis been breathless?
Jonathan Stillo
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303–305
Dust piles on fire
Robert Desjarlais
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306–310
Reflexive aspirations, biopolitics, and atmospheres and caste
Devika Bordia
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311–314
The vital and the rational
Ann Grodzins Gold
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315–318
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments
Andrew McDowell
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319–322