...Lawrence J. Taylor Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Lawrence J. Taylor There Are Two Things that People Don t Like to Hear about Themselves : The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology M y title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise...

...Joel Robbins This essay brings together the current philosophical discussion of Paul and recent anthropological work on Christianity. Taking the development of notions of the event as a source of radical cultural change as the center of new philosophical discussions of Paul, I argue that the rapid...

... obliquely. These answers end up duplicating what Jason W. Moore refers to as Cartesian dualism, placing humanity on the side of either nature or society. What the Anthropocene demands is a political anthropology that posits humanity as the intersection of nature and history. It is for this reason that Paolo...

...Simon Coleman I explore potential tensions and mutual provocations among the anthropology of religion, radical theology, and critical philosophy in order to suggest the political and potentially eventful role of the immanent in anthropology. By the end of the essay, my apologia argues...

...Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller; Noenoe K. Silva The scientific, philosophical, and political efforts to police the distinction between human and animal—amalgamated processes that Giorgio Agamben has called “the anthropological machine”—have been significant components of neocolonial governance in Hawai`i...

...Benjamin Y. Fong This essay attempts to formulate a more convincing understanding of the new anthropological type than one finds in The Authoritarian Personality , one rooted in Adorno’s work but never articulated by Adorno himself. It begins by challenging Adorno’s use of the term ego weakness...

... distorted in their interpretation. Melville J. Herskovits, Professor of Anthropology Northwestern University. ...

... anthropology of Christianity—with Badiou's description of an original first-century Pauline Christian militancy could bring clarity to these issues. Starting with a reading of some key work and ethnography by Joel Robbins (one of the establishing figures in the anthropology of Christianity) and supplementing...

...Krzysztof Ziarek Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's “Letter on Humanism” might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism...

....” Broadly speaking, one percenters view human nature and destiny (necessity and historical contingency) through an anthropological rather than a theological lens. As three perspectives on the same phenomenon, they are the dialectical other of theism and conventional forms of religion. In all three cases...

... on anthropological studies of witchcraft, I argue that what was at stake in the expression and management of resource anxieties was not households' “dysfunction” or “cooperation,” but something far more explosive: the constant triaging of obligations in relation to the risks they could pose at any moment. Catherine...

... understandings of thought have dramatic implications for contemporary selfhood, sociality, and political life. This essay situates their understandings of animality, selfhood, and thinking through the work of Giorgio Agamben. Agamben's concept of the “anthropological machine” offers an alternative framing...

... power. By drawing on historical and anthropological studies of Greek “pre-law,” Foucault was able to explore the juridical dimensions of the liturgy of truth, especially in the transition from the Homeric centrality of the agon to the emergence of the forensic inquiry with its reliance on the extraction...

...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

... alongside analysis of tradition, humanism, Marxist anthropology, and the nature of the national democratic revolution. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf Marx in the Vernacular: Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub and the Riddles of Localizing Leftist Politics in Sudanese Philosophies...

... were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying the caravan on the ground and through cyber-ethnography, configuring what we call an “emergency anthropology.” Starting from...

... recovery, this article draws on long term ethnographic research in the global off grid solar industry to lay the grounds for an anthropology of humanitarianism and solar power. For over half a century, white engineers and entrepreneurs in the Global North have presented solar photovoltaics as a harbinger...

... entailment. Among the many effects of colonialism on anthropology, one in particular stands out: the fact that much of the discipline’s theoretical capital is palpably derived from ethnographic research done...

...Willliam Seagle Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE ANTHROPOLOGIST S DILEMMA WILLLIAM SEAGLE THE SAVAGERY of contemporary civilization, which has reached the verge of atomic destruction, has encouraged what has come to be called the anthropological attitude. That curious...

... 2016 Notes on Contributors Anne Allison is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. A specialist in contemporary Japan, she studies the interface between material conditions and desire/fantasy/imagination across various domains includ- ing corporate capitalism, global...