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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.
Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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On Technics and Technology as a Modification of the Death Drive

Constellations, EarlyView.
Lachlan Ross
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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Uncivil Speech in the Social Media: Democracy, Political Liberalism, and the Virtue of Public Reason

Constellations, EarlyView.
Ludvig Beckman
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Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
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Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?

Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
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“Lascivious Poison?” Street‐songs as a Source for Popular Expression: The Case of Jansenism, c. 1687–1737*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-40, March 2025.
Famed for its austerity, Jansenism nonetheless prompted a slew of salacious street‐songs throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If historians have increasingly examined early modern urban singing practices, underlining the social porosity and intergenerational hold of many street‐songs, little research has been devoted to unpicking what ...
Tiéphaine Thomason
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Why the Fermi paradox may not be well explained by Wong and Bartlett's theory of civilization collapse. A Comment on: 'Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?' (2022) by Wong and Bartlett. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface
Jackson CJ, Criado-Perez C.
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Césaire and Fanon on Fascism: The “Boomerang Effect” Beyond the Metropole

Constellations, EarlyView.
Dallas Jokic
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“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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