HAU

Vol 16, No 2 (2026)

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Playing with concepts
Adeline Masquelier, Louisa Lombard, Michael Herzfeld, Tiago Guidi
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323–326

Forum: The Future of the Ethnography of the State: Essays in Tribute to James C. Scott

Introduction: Marveling over the state
Louisa Lombard
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327–330
How Nigerians see the state: An essay in honor of James C. Scott
Daniel Jordan Smith
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331–336
Rethinking Scott in an era of post-developmental restorationist state formation
Elif M. Babül
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337–342
After Scott: Perspectives for the future of the ethnography of the state
Tatjana Thelen
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343–348
The high-modernist state: Rethinking environmental authoritarianism in the twenty-first century
Amy Zhang
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349–354
Weapons of the wronged: Notes on law’s double-edge
Christian Lund
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355–362
Seeing like a surveillance state: Settler colonialism on the China–Myanmar border
Ting Hui Lau
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363–370
A plethora of polities: The state, the nation-state, and the ethnonational state
Michael Herzfeld
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371–375

Special Section: Transforming Care

Transforming care
Koreen M. Reece, Diego Maria Malara
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376–385
Questioning care for things (and their people)
JC Niala
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386–401
Enduring violence, times of care: “Forced-marriage” in the UK
Perveez Mody
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402–414
Care and karmic stories
Felicity Aulino
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415–429
Care for neighbors and care on paper: Relationships, medical bureaucracies, and conflicting time in community health work
Emilija Zabiliūtė
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430–443
Care as social action: Child care and children caring in Yauyos, Peru
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Jeanine Anderson
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444–456
Institutional care across borders: How care relocation (re)articulates sediments of German histories of East-Central Europe
Kristine Krause
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457–471
Afterword: Temporalities of care and transformative potentials
Tatjana Thelen
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472–474

Articles

Ethnoproduction: Scripted ethnography using a cast and crew
Catherine Donaldson
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475–490
Becoming Orthodox: Transcendental pathways as intimate structures of subjectivity
Stephen Pax Leonard
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491–504
Kantala comes to the clinic: Tuberculosis, distributed emotions, and states of exhaustion
Andrew McDowell
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505–518
Transversal multiverses: Across ontologies and multiplicities in the Guianas
Rogério Brittes W. Pires
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519–535
Circulating loss: Snakes, melancholy, and the affective memory of trauma in Grassfields birth rites
Emile Tsékénis
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536–553
Dialogue vs. “doing”: Running without aim for improved interfaith relations in Luxembourg
Anastasia Badder
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554–568
Playing dangerously: Reproducing and displacing heroic and entrepreneurial masculinity in Senegalese wrestling with punches
Francesco Fanoli
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569–583

Book Symposium

Introduction
Jarrett Zigon
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584–586
Radical hospitality in a Berlin hackerspace
Vita Peacock
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587–592
Los Angeles is burning …
C. Jason Throop
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593–597
Terminal prognosis as information-fact: Considering health data from a Zigonian perspective
Devin Flaherty
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598–603
“What is it between us?” Relational ethics for the study of Human–AI interaction
Luis Felipe R. Murillo
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604–610
What is there between us?: Reflections on Zigon’s relational ethics
Joel Robbins
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611–615