... sacred profane marronage fugitivity fugitive anthropology ...

... Mexico organ transplant sacred profane moral duality ...

... This chapter takes up a second set of analytic icons at work in the anthropology of transplant, drawing inspiration from the provocative figure of El Niño Doctor de los Enfermos (Baby Jesus, Doctor of the Sick) to explore the dense intermingling of notions of the sacred and the profane...

... of the everyday or profane world. Tracing sanctuary to the sacred, it shows how this tradition is inseparable from that which disrupts the ordinary and the routine. This introduction offers various origin stories, or histories, of sanctuary—without settling on any one of them as the beginning or root...

... on water drops with humanitarian groups and interviews with Tohono O’odham and Hia-Ced O'odham activists to think about the desert as sacred, a meaning at odds with the profane world of metal beams, roadside checkpoints, and surveillance technologies. The desert, both positive and negative sacred, exceeds...

... from the provocative figure of El Niño Doctor de los Enfermos (Baby Jesus, Doctor of the Sick) to explore the dense intermingling of notions of the sacred and the profane, science and the supernatural, insiders and outsiders in how the work of transplant proceeded in Mexico, as well as in how...

... of the term mixtape within hip-hop for DJ-created works of turntable artistry, creators and consumers of indie music constructed the mix tape as a gift that symbolically rescued music from the profane world of commodities. The mix tape's routines of announcing one's music tastes as a bid for connection...

... with the relations of patronage that sustained its work. As Asha’s members mobilized rights claims and protested the councilors’ willingness to “sell” their water supply, they did not forget that they continue to be subject to the discretionary and profane force of the city’s municipal system, which continues...

... away from Mexican hospitals, Francisco—whose nickname is Panchito—repurposed a worn-out van into a free ambulance for migrants and other vulnerable populations. This chapter traces Panchito’s many conversions, transformations, and becomings—arguing that the sacred threatens the profane world of things...

..., dangerous and prohibited from contacting the profane. Eloy Detention Center touch taboo vertical border sanctuary city ...

... decades of military rule. With her characteristic irreverent humor and occasional profanity, Leite narrates her adolescence and political awakening against a backdrop of massive social upheaval as Brazil grappled with the legacies not only of dictatorship and state violence, but also of slavery...