Most Recent Articles from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  

• Of fear and friendship: Amazonian sociality beyond kinship and affinity./La crainte et l'amitie: la socialite amazonienne, entre parente et affinite.

  The article explores the nature of sociality and alterity in indigenous Amazonia. If native Amazonian sociality is all about predatory affinity or,...

  3/1/07 by Santos-Granero, Fernando · More from publication

• Sacrifice and the problem of beginning: meditations from Sakalava mythopraxis./Le sacrifice et le probleme du commencement: meditation sur la mythopraxie des...

  This article addresses the general problem of beginning in human thought and action. It argues for complementing the emphasis on transition in the...

  3/1/07 by Lambek, Michael · More from publication

• Love and elopement in northern Pakistan./Amour et enlevements dans le nord du Pakistan.

  This article focuses on conceptions of romantic love held by Khowar-speaking Muslim people in the Chitral region of northern Pakistan. It shows the...

  3/1/07 by Marsden, Magnus · More from publication

• Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries./Sur brulis: guerre,...

  European colonial efforts to pacify 'rebellious' Iban in western Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced chronic...

  3/1/07 by Wadley, Reed L. · More from publication

• On religious ritual as deference and communicative excess./Du rituel religieux en tant que deference et exces de communication.

  I shall argue that most religious ritual is a performance that not only invokes but also performs communication. The ethnographic material from which...

  3/1/07 by Feuchtwang, Stephan · More from publication

• The dollarization of Vietnamese ghost money./Viet-nam: la dollarisation des offrandes aux fantomes.

  Offering money to gods, ancestors, and ghosts is an increasingly important part of everyday life in Vietnam. When it concerns the traces of a violent...

  3/1/07 by Kwon, Heonik · More from publication

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