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... This chapter reflects on how this book’s focus on the tensions and uncertainties of the immediate aftermath of injury departs from a tendency in the anthropology of violence to look hopefully toward social and cultural forms that arise after violence. This approach is instead allied with others...

... of living in the modern world. narrative ethnography sexual violence political anthropology modern subject Iran ...

... and audiences by obscuring the intimacies that condition and inflect their formation. As queer anthropology attends to modernity’s enduring structures and creative possibilities, revisiting modern legacies of sexual social science further reveals their power to reproduce the violences against which...

... the intimacies that condition and inflect their formation. As queer anthropology attends to modernity’s enduring structures and creative possibilities, revisiting modern legacies of sexual social science further reveals their power to reproduce the violences against which anthropologists work. intimacies...

...), in which the voices of anthropology’s interlocutors can be heard and acknowledged and in which both anthropologists and those they study can be transformed through their encounters with one another. ethnography violence care intersubjectivity ...

... This chapter engages such concepts as subjectivity, pronouns, essentialism, social construction, queer ecology, sociobiology, and representation by considering such life forms as tulips, apes, slime mold, starfish, bears, pigs, and bovines. It critiques the violence of heteronormativity...

... to be heard in context of a complex constellation of social and political conditions, with their memories and embodied histories intermingled in their way of living in the modern world. narrative ethnography sexual violence political anthropology modern subject Iran ...

... for proof of witchcraft. witch hunts patriarchy cultural beliefs structural transformation In Tanzania, violence against elderly women accused of witchcraft is often conflated with other forms of occult violence , including the sacrificial murders of people with albinism. These so-called...

...Bodies in Time This chapter builds on Elizabeth Povinelli’s reflections on how philosophies and anthropologies of radical potentiality—scholarship that posits a political or social otherwise emerges in moments of extreme social indetermination and of radical threshold experiences—fail...

... Nervousness, not a European characteristic alone, was basic to the vernacular. The conclusion returns to evidence on gender and thinks through the implications for HIV findings and African and medical history. It underlines interpretive techniques for new historical and anthropological writing...

..., and bovines. It critiques the violence of heteronormativity and celebrates trans* possibilities, asexual or ace modes of reproduction, and intersex embodiments. It ultimately shows how nonhuman life forms help students and scholars of queer anthropology grasp and defy boundaries between materiality...

...Of Parasites and Contracts This chapter lays out a path for imagining an anthropology of the natural contract. It does so by staging a conversation between Michel Serres’s writings on parasites and symbiotic ontologies and anthropological theories of exchange and by exploring the complex...

... writes, “within the context of the Americas, freedom, equality, and liberty were hewn in a crucible of violence, subjugation, enslavement, extermination, and expropriation that made such promissory ideals intelligible, desirable, and enforceable. Savage, animal, and female were differentiated in order...

... as the nation’s hub for anthropological scholarship of written, cultural, and treaty records of Indigenous peoples. This chapter centers Indigenous lawyers and activists, alumni of the museum, and their mission to defend Indigenous rights through law and by becoming an anthropologist. The authors provide...

... This chapter introduces Michel Serres as an important theorist of modern warfare and violence. It brings together Serres’s topological perspectives on time, history, and general ecology of pollution. The chapter thus opens new avenues for thinking and writing about the long-lasting socio...