{"title":"Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking","authors":"Maayan Cohen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14231","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates an increasingly observable yet insufficiently studied phenomenon: the emphasis placed by artists on personal experience as the most legitimate inspiration for art. To this end, I introduce the term ‘sincere realism’ to describe an emerging form of personal cinema in Israel, illustrating how sincerity has evolved into a dominant ‘regime of truth’ that moulds modern forms of critique and expression in contemporary Israeli filmmaking. Through a critique of Foucault's concept of ‘regimes of truth’, I argue that ‘sincere realism’ has ethical and political implications and therefore allows a more nuanced anthropological approach to Foucault's concept of power. This perspective offers a fresh insight into how artists negotiate contemporary ‘regimes of truth’.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microbial turns","authors":"Hannah Brown","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14210","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1144-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being and becoming through Facebook: morality, sociality, and reflection among young Turkish‐American Muslim women","authors":"Ashley Hahn","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14230","url":null,"abstract":"Recent debates in the anthropology of Islam have centred on the relationship between ‘everyday Islam’ and ‘piety’. Some scholars have posited that these are two opposing theoretical poles, while others have described how religion permeates the everyday. I add to these debates by describing how, for one group of young Turkish‐American Muslim women in a piety movement, the everyday permeates religion. Specifically, my ethnography shows that the ‘everyday’, constructed as a site of struggle and reflection, is seen as at the core of being and becoming a Muslim. Their diverse and shifting responses to the ethical dilemma of how to emulate the Prophet's <jats:italic>vefa</jats:italic> (loyalty) after moving away from one another – specifically whether to engage with Facebook for this reason – show how piety and the everyday, and the sacred and the secular, infuse one another in complex ways in their moral projects, and hence how what is considered normative and pious need not be static and homogeneous.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spaces of revolution: ethnic oppression and liberation in Myanmar","authors":"Elliott Prasse-Freeman","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14209","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1148-1151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kipnis, Andrew B. The funeral of Mr Wang: life, death, and ghosts in urbanizing China. xii, 174 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2021. £24.00 (paper)","authors":"Susanne Bregnbæk","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1153-1154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia","authors":"Jesse Jonkman","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14211","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule. Here I take a slightly different route, as I demonstrate that subterranean matter makes possible ways of knowing and working that are anathema to a pro‐corporate legal regime. More specifically, I maintain that Colombian small‐scale miners experience the underground as invisible and unruly matter, and I show that this experience mediates their everyday criticism of, and resistance to, state governance.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142383892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jeevendrampillai, David. Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local. xviii, 210 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2021. £25.00 (paper)","authors":"Julian Dobson","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14226","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1163-1164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142383890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Montgomery, Heather. Familiar violence: a history of child abuse. 264 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. £25.00 (paper)","authors":"William Tantam","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14216","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1154-1155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clayton, Sue. The new internationalists: activist volunteers in the European refugee crisis. xxii, 409 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2020. £32.00 (paper)","authors":"Andriani Fili","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14223","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"30 4","pages":"1161-1162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142383851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}