Previous articleNext article FreeBiopolitics in the Time of CoronavirusDaniele LorenziniDaniele Lorenzini Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMore2 April 2020In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices swift emergence new panoply “genres q...

Anthropology is nothing if it not a particular way of describing the world. Yet what most precious to – terms and concepts that mark as discipline can also be tricky. When resurgent boundaries exclusions twist truth telling faking in any which way, anthropology might find new urgency thinking about conceptual life tries express. How engages has always depended on (attention to) how are used, so...

In her article "Anthropological Inquiry and the Limits of Dialogue" Kathleen Gallagher analyzes the epistemological and ethical implications created by representations of Self and portrayals of Other in two apparently different ethnographic texts, R.F. Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu and Kevin Dwyer's Moroccan Dialogues. Specific attention is paid to the authors' portrayal of themselves and the obs...

This paper investigates i) how the structuring practices and meanings associated with dance classes at an inner-city American high school operated as institutional spaces (re)producing ‘dividing practices’; ii) how these ‘dividing practices’ created and sustained social hierarchies relative to dominant notions of embodiment, ‘race’, social class, femininity, and dance; and iii) the way these do...

This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of universality, namely the anthropology of contexts in which citizenship and biological self-preservation are being radically decoupled as well as the policies, techniques, and media (biological, health, juridical...

The analysis stage of a narrative inquiry project presents particular challenges. Finding the most suitable method of data analysis and presentation of the findings takes time and effort. It is important to make the most use of the data collected and to represent participantsʼ narratives in a coherent and meaningful way. This paper reviews some of the analytic lenses used in narrative inquiry a...

DuringWorld War I male French citizens in Cochinchina whom the colonial government had drafted to fight in Europe left their families behind in the colony.Through a complicated subsidies process, the government offered financial assistance to families impoverished by the draftee’s departure and the concomitant loss of income. Far from being a monolithic category, the colony’s poor white applica...

and summarize some main features that are pertinent in the present context.2 This tool interprets rationalism as a highly selective and ideological focus on: structures, laws, norms, principles, universality, objectivity, science, logic, formalization, and other items that fit this kind of rationality ideal. According to the model, rationalism in this sense detracts from: factuality, subjectivi...