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{"title":"Moses in Melanesia: Political Theology and\u0000 Corpus Mysticum\u0000 in Anthropology","authors":"Jaap Timmer","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2298953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2298953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"50 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Elusive Gold and Uncertainty in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining","authors":"Anna Frohn Pedersen","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2292464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2292464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"217 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vernacular Humanitarianism in the Land of Associations: Negotiating Voluntary Organisation, Municipal Influence, and the Reception of Refugees among Venligboerne in Denmark","authors":"Marianne Holm Pedersen","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2285225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2285225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139215024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mining Rituals in Vital Spaces: The Cosmopolitics of Gold and the Precarity of Mine Closure in Ghana","authors":"Lauren Coyle Rosen","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2288535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2288535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139225741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediums, Objects, and the Problem of Presence in the Western Himalayas","authors":"Asaf Sharabi","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2274296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2274296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn some religious contexts, mainly Protestant Christianity, anthropologists often contend with the problem of presence that preoccupies believers – the simultaneous presence and absence of God. However, in the Hinduism of the Western Himalayas the problem of presence is quite different. The royal deities in this region are profoundly present, embodied in mediums and palanquins. Thus, followers of these deities are not puzzled by the concept of an absent god. Instead, they need to navigate in a world where gods are very tangible, in ways that can cause discomfort and anxiety. In this article I demonstrate the different roles of mediums and palanquins in the religious experience, and how palanquins are considered more reliable manifestations of the deities. I suggest that this is due to the need of the locals to maintain some degree of distance from the spirit mediumship in order to avoid excess presence of the deities.KEYWORDS: Religious mediationdoubtpresence of deitiesHinduismWestern Himalayas Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Mahasu is a joint name for four brothers: Botha, Bashik, Pabasi, and Chalda. In discussion, followers of the four brothers usually refer to Mahasu in the singular, sometimes indicating all four Mahasu brothers but at other times, as in this case, they are referring only to one brother, usually Botha.2 Engelke (Citation2007: 9) defined the problem of presence as follows: ‘how a religious subject defines and claims to construct a relationship with the divine through the investment of authority and meaning in certain words, actions, and objects’.3 The article is based on fieldwork in the Western Himalayas, a study in which I have been intermittently engaged from 2013 to the present day, especially in upper Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, and in the northwest part of Uttarakhand. Dozens of royal deities dwell in the field site. The most prominent in my field site are the Mahasu brothers.4 While one could find sovereign deities in the Hindu context (Singh Citation2015; Maunaguru Citation2020), the royal deities in the Western Himalayas are present in the lives of their followers in profound ways, primarily through their ability to move from place to place.5 In some parts of the western and central Himalayas goddesses can be considered royal, with their own territory and palanquins (e.g. Halperin Citation2019; Sax Citation1991).6 Sutherland (Citation2003) describes three types of festive processional practices, in which deities meet with each other.7 See Sax (Citation2003) for two instances of rivalry between deities, manifested in the deities’ objection to palanquins of rival deities entering their territory.8 Sax (Citation2003: 183) describes an uncommon case of two deities with the same name, Jakh, who are not only considered to be separate deities, but there is even a conflict between them.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Israel Science Found","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monkey King’s Golden Headband: Domestic Surveillance Technology as a Moral Journey in Chinese Urban Families","authors":"Ziyuan Shi","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2274297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2274297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"111 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135216813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Our Society Works’: Disaster Solidarity and Models of Social Life in the Elbe River Valley","authors":"Kristoffer Albris","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2274294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2274294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"37 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135170218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"River life and the upspring of nature <b>River life and the upspring of nature</b> , by Naveeda Khan, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, 256 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-1939-8","authors":"Andrew Alan Johnson","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2252616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2252616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Trap: Care and Mystification in Carceral Governance","authors":"Tali Ziv","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2264527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2264527","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAs a component of the broader carceral state, criminal legal probation has become a defacto social safety net. In this essay, I argue that criminal probation mystifies time and space to create a surface relation of care in Philadelphia. Through cycles of capture and release, judges capture and detain as care. Though the term “trap” was used by interlocutors to refer to selling drugs and entry-level work, I argue that the mystifying work of the carceral state produces a deeper trap. The robust and coordinated armature of criminal probation far exceeds any welfare state service, rendering the tools of capture and detention the only source of interruption in escalating cycles of violence, drug use, or mental distress. To enter the relation of care this dynamic of capture and release creates, however, one has to accept the symbolic terms of its mystification. Racialized urban inequality appears as a mythical story of heroes and villains.KEYWORDS: Mystificationtemporalityracialisationneoliberalisminequality AcknowledgementsTongo, this essay is dedicated to you with love. I hope you continue to find some echo of your life in its pages. To Deborah Thomas, Sara Rendell, Katherine Culver, Kate Rowland, and Ruth Shefner: thank you for being the robust village that brings an article from inception to submission. To Kevin O’Neill, thank you for your boundless generosity and wisdom: they have shaped this essay in more ways than you know. I am forever grateful to have received such critical mentorship from a familiar space where it was not owed or required. To Hanna Pickard, thank you for taking a chance on an anthropologist and offering such generous opportunity and mentorship to me at Johns Hopkins; this article would not have been possible without it. Net, thank you for the time and care that brought the revision of this article to the finish line – you bring life and truth to the term colleague. Briana Nichols, thank you for being my ride or die this year. I couldn’t do it without you.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Ethics InformationInstitutional Review BoardUniversity of PennsylvaniaFederal wide Assurance Number: 00004028Original Proposal IRB Number: 826720Continuing Review signed by IRB#8Reliance agreement with Johns Hopkins UniversityFederal wide Assurance Number: FWA00005834Signed by University of Pennsylvania: Jessica Yoos; jessyoos@upenn.eduSigned by Johns Hopkins University: Bertrand Garcia-Moreno; bgarcia@jh.eduNotes1 The name of every person in this article is a pseudonym, typically chosen by the individual, or occasionally assigned by the author to protect confidentiality.2 The terms villain and hero are mine yet very much inspired by David Scott (Citation2004) and his engagement with the romantic genre. The terms are meant to capture the fetishised life of criminality and the subject who could expel that criminality which circulated through criminal legal contexts. I sought terms that ","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136293599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CHIEFSHIP, PTY unLTD.: Reflections on Sovereign Un/Accountability, Past and Present","authors":"John L. Comaroff","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2261652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2261652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTA number of ‘customary’ African kings and chiefs – historically accountable to the will of their subjects – have sought to turn their offices into lucrative sources of accumulation; indeed, into a form of monopoly capital founded on the assertion of a political sovereignty unaccountable to any other. What historical conditions have laid the ground for this transformation? How widespread is it? What, in the ‘new’ economies, technologies, ideologies and politics of the global order, has given the Kingdom of Custom its material, affective and political heft in this, the twenty-first century? In addressing these questions with particular focus on South Africa, this essay explores the relationship between ‘local’ structural conditions and those exogenous to the country in order to explain ongoing transformations in traditional authority – and their impact on the political and cultural economy of the nation at large.KEYWORDS: ‘Traditional’ African sovereigntyKingdom of custom‘Business chiefs,’ colonialityPostcolonialitySouth Africa Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Dalindyebo v S (090/2015) [2015] ZASCA 144 (1 October 2015).2 For a comprehensive account of the case, see Thamm (Citation2010).3 Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others (2474/16) [3016] ZAWCHC 206; [2017] 2 All SA 463 (WCC) (23 November 2016).4 On contemporary South African chiefship see e.g. Oomen (Citation2005), Williams (Citation2010), Turner (Citation2014), and Krämer (Citation2016).5 See also the essays in Comaroff and Comaroff (Citation2018).6 This and some of the next paragraph are paraphrased from the same text.7 See e.g. Gluckman (Citation1940b) and Schapera (Citation1934; Citation1947).8 Berry (Citation2001) was speaking of colonial and postcolonial Asante; Capps (Citation2016: 455), however, argues that her study ‘sets the agenda for a materialist analysis of the rentier chiefship … ’ in general.9 Case no. 12745/2018P, 11 June 2021; https://www.groundup.org.za/media/uploads/documents/itb_judgment_11_june_2021.pdf.10 All quotes in this and the next paragraph are from Cook (Citation2018: 211–214). Approximately 2,000 mineworkers attended the gathering.11 Leruo has not escaped criticism as a ruler, although his hold on his office remains strong (Comaroff & Comaroff Citation2009: 109). He has also been respondent to a lawsuit filed by the Bafokeng Land Buyers’ Association, which claims that much of ‘his’ territory actually belongs to the ‘individual communities forming the Bafokeng ‘tribe’ … [who bought it] in the mid-19th century;’ https://bafokeng-landbuyers.org/.12 Throughout the trial, Zuma had vocal support from the ANC Women’s League.13 Every indigenous ruler I encountered in the North West and KwaZulu-Natal expressed a desire to take their polities into the market and of being a ‘business chief’; the variance in their success in doing so, however, makes it imp","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135581045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}