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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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The Ethical Life of Educational Policy: Physical Education Teachers as Phronimoi

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the ethical dimension of educational policy. Policy‐as‐practice scholarship tends to emphasize teachers as purposeful agents involved in problem‐solving and the creative interpretation and reassembling of educational discourses.
Adriano De Francesco
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.
ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Managing death in exile

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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