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Published: 03 February 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024064-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9311-4
Book Chapter

By Maryam Kashani
Published: 01 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2723-2
... representation ethnographic relation tears opacity ethnocinematic ...
Book Chapter

By Maryam Kashani
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027232-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2723-2
... Chapter 4 considers the ethical-political bounds and responsibilities of ethnographic relation and representation. It considers how embodied forms of knowing, from tears and gendered geographies to forms of intimate distance and filmmaking, offer ways to navigate tensions between opacity...
Published: 01 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375494-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7549-4
..., acoustemology derives from the concept of “relational ontology,” the position that substantive existence never operates anterior to relationality. In terms of ethnographic research, acoustemology is grounded in twenty-five years of research on the anthropology of sound, and particularly vocality, interspecies...
Published: 10 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373056-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
.... Ethnographically, my analysis pivots around an interaction between a radiobiologist and a veteran who participated in British nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s, developments within experimental science that are reconfiguring the biological role of the gene in newly relational ways, and the subsequent...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375654-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... in the ethnographic project itself. From a discussion of Marlon Riggs’s filmic depiction of his own death (as one way to talk about the nondigital) to a machine that uses digital technology to play with temporality in broadcast television, this essay asks what the changing social relations (and existential realities...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374596-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7459-6
.... It is ethnographically organized around various frames on, or local figurings of, the relation between women and chickens, the relation between chickens and other species, and the relation between Q’eqchi’-speaking women and other identities. It analyzes such frames in terms of three key themes: ontology (what kinds...
Published: 25 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060079-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9
... forest commodities but rather that forest carbon be held in place in the living forest. Forest Lost centers on the relational work required to keep that carbon in place. The introduction presents this relational approach, as well as the contested social inclusion and apparent contradictions of green...
Published: 19 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... “multidimensioning” in relation to other anthropological practices for bringing social scientific elements (such as people, places, processes, and things) and literatures together to create ethnographic projects. It concludes with advice to instructors planning to teach the handbook in various contexts...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375319-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
... This chapter relates the accounts of elderly Cuban women of street processions that occurred during religious festivals held before the 1959 Revolution, when they carried an effigy of Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, a local advocation of the Virgin Mary, with them through...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373582-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7358-2
... of rural Africans in the Eastern Cape with early twentieth-century studio portraits of African Christians in South African urban centers. These images visualize a tense grammar of colonization and black self-fashioning, and the tense relations of photographic subjects to the ethnographic gazes engendered...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374428-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7442-8
... in maximally affecting, pointed forms of address. The chapter draws on sociolinguistic frameworks of social deixis and person reference to open an empirical, ethnographic window on two interdependent axes of Indigenous radio’s staging of the voice: its imbrication with networks of kinship relations and local...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059400-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5940-0
... Since the 1990s, queer anthropology has described sexuality and gender in relation to a transnational scale. A transnational approach expands the classic anthropological view of cultural difference manifest in insular societies to consider the effects of global forces on queer being...
Book Chapter

By Lieba Faier
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059523-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9407-4
... The introduction presents the book’s central concept, the “banality of good,” drawing on Hannah Arendt’s use of banality to refer to a rote thoughtlessness in political life and situating the concept in relation to other work on structural violence and bureaucratic governance. It then outlines...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
..., historically a tool enabling empire to expand but ethnographically a means of locating the unknown by assessing its relation to two known points. Bohlman opens moments of silence by listening to the imperial sounds of India under the British, military music during the American Civil War, the movement of folk...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 4 asks how metabolism is diagnosable and treatable, through the sciences of diabetology, nutrition, and surgical amputation. It is concerned with absorption between persons and clinics. Ethnographically, it is anchored in the clinic and works through substances like calories, insulin...
Series: Elements
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027768-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2776-8
... Drawing on ethnographic work conducted underground, this chapter explores the relationship among nature, labor, and individual subject formation. Irreverently borrowing from Karl Marx’s theory of consciousness, the chapter suggests that the site of labor is not only a crucible of formation...
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... that the gene that emerged in these ethnographic settings represented both a dangerous specter troubling interlocutors’ understandings of kin relations and responsibilities, while also offering a novel way in which to conceptualize the biological responsibilities of the state to family life. veteran...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 22 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374190-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7419-0
... to menstruate. Mapping the class and gendered distribution of the prescribed and improvised hormonal regimes adopted by people in Bahia, the introduction examines the relation between self-improvement, control, hygiene, biomedical citizenship and the Brazilian project of modernity. It introduces the stark...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 05 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374480-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7448-0
... The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante, an American medical aid organization intervening...