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New Book!
Southern Epistemologies
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon
Edited by H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery
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Tanto na Roma monárquica quanto na Índia védica, a soberania seria atribuída a dois personagens que formariam um par antitético: ao rex romano se oporia o mais importante dos sacerdotes, o flamen dialis, da mesma forma que ao raj se oporia o brahman.
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Em regimes animistas, a literatura antropológica não cansou de assinalar a recorrência da figura do “dono”, meta-pessoa responsável por determinado domínio animal ou vegetal,
Andrew McDowell
"Kantala comes, and I cannot do it." At a Mumbai TB clinic, one woman's word for exhaustion opens onto an entire assemblage of care. McDowell traces how emotions are distributed across clinics, drugs, and policy. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Stephen Pax Leonard
Why convert? Leonard's self-ethnography of becoming Russian Orthodox finds transcendence not in doctrine but in sound: chanted Church Slavonic, semi-intelligible, works as a "sonic portal" to the divine. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Anastasia Badder
Can you "do interfaith" without talking? At Luxembourg's annual interfaith run, runners wager that running side by side beats dialogue. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Emile Tsékénis
In the Cameroon Grassfields, every person has an alter ego, a subterranean "snake of the backwater." Tsékénis on birth rites that re-enact the silent traumas of slavery and forced labor, and produce melancholic subjects. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Francesco Fanoli
In Dakar's wrestling stables, làmb wrestlers must embody heroic masculinity to win fighting contracts — then gleefully parody it in training. Fanoli shows how play, as much as discipline, makes gendered subjectivities. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
New Book!
Southern Epistemologies
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon
Edited by H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery
Free PDF: haubooks.org/southern-episte…
Paperback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
"Relationships are hard enough without interference from the Home Office." How do you represent people who do not want to be identified?
Catherine Donaldson, Ethnoproduction: Scripted ethnography using a cast and crew
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Book Symposium: How Is It Between Us? by Jarrett Zigon
Contributors to this symposium focus on the word "between": as long as we phrase it that way, there is a relation — and from relations, new things get made.
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Special Section: Transforming Care
Care, like "the state," is a special kind of concept — used in non-conceptual ways in everyday life as much as in academic debate. This section situates care practices as forms of engagement in and with time.
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Forum: The Future of the Ethnography of the State: Essays in Tribute to James C. Scott
What comes after "seeing like a state"? Contributors were asked to sketch promising directions in the future ethnography of the state.
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Rogério Brittes W. Pires
How to describe people who inhabit several worlds at once? Pires pairs the bakru spirits of Suriname and Guyana with the Saamaka concept konde — "village," "country," "land," "world" — to rethink ontology. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
New Issue, Vol. 16.2 | Autumn 2026 | Playing with concepts
A forum on the state after James C. Scott, a special section on Transforming Care, articles from Senegalese wrestling to a Mumbai TB clinic, & a symposium on Zigon's How Is It Between Us? journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ha…
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Emre Hocanın ( @jnpatocka ) Teknoloji Felsefesi Problemleri kitabında yararlandığı isimlerden biriydi André Leroi-Gourhan.
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