HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter7
Subversive comparisons7
Front Matter5
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule5
Imperialist ideology or depoliticization? Why Russian citizens support the invasion of Ukraine4
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine4
Shameless modernity4
Northwest African perspectives on the concept of the state4
At the track4
From reasons of state to individual interest4
Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential4
Reflections on the healing power of collaborative filmmaking3
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia3
Between justice and goodness3
Surreal events, “TV zombies,” and social media in postsocialist Kazakhstan3
Risky business3
Not “multiple ontologies” but ontic capaciousness3
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood3
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge3
Reflections on signs and sacrifice3
Ordering being, divining time2
Embodied border control on the move2
Witnessing from within2
The performative photograph2
Video footage and the grain of practice2
One hundred years of habitude2
Troubling complicities2
Logic of myth and action2
Destroying the negatives2
Eliminate all illegal births2
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies2
“Crimes against sovereignty”2
Appearance, disappearance, transience2
Virtue’s cosmos2
A dissonant lockdown of a post-danwei neighborhood in a third-tier city2
Identity, violence, and the uncomfortable necessity of categorization2
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file2
Uncanny ethics1
Front Cover1
Writing kinship from within1
A home in the hicret1
Objects and images1
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide1
“What does the heart want?”1
Catharsis after the hangover1
The historical contingency of religious normativity1
Sovereignty triangles1
Front Cover1
Dreaming the path1
Of sago, songs, and stories1
Between speaking and enduring1
Erotic apprehension in Syrian and German encounters1
“A tradition from our ancestors”1
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality1
The death of urban China1
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims1
Seeing water1
Body art1
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity1
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial1
Living in a world of others1
Adjacency and secession1
Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person1
We’ve never seen anything like it1
Troubling emotions in China’s psy-boom1
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era1
Front Matter1
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference1
Katherine Verdery1
As through a glass darkly1
Reflections on Unwritten Letters and the neorealism of contingency1
Found again in translation? Standardizing the authenticity of guaraná among the Sateré-Mawé people (Brazilian Amazon)1
Front Cover1
The burden of choice and the triumph of the event1
Writing in the DRC1
One year later1
If only there was a Department of Fieldwork in Philosophy1
Forgiveness as a technology of the state0
Law as ritual0
What was fascism?0
Acting counter to our time0
Insecurities of nativism0
Tools for an efficient witness0
There was no future in the past0
Everyday forgiveness0
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust0
Gridlock0
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes0
The affective life of the Nanjing Massacre0
Preface0
Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism0
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)0
Deflecting responsibility0
The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture0
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art0
Reading between the bricks0
Front Cover0
Scales of subversion0
Less virtuous than it seems0
Afterword0
Twilight states0
Travel time activities0
Reality remodeled0
Desiring home0
Beyond order, beyond the human0
Practicing restraint0
Spotlight on the liminal dividend0
Raw fear in Hong Kong0
Economy, emulation, and equality: Sociogenesis in the postsocialist capitalocene0
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research0
Flows0
Coping with stress as a collective?0
“Imagination is a tree”0
Mask and ancestral figure0
Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing0
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality0
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs?0
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven0
Against what?0
Facets of charity0
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico0
Front Cover0
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later0
Developing indifference0
Wind, wood, and the entangled life of disasters0
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines0
An exhibition in fieldwork form0
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts0
Anthro-artists0
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey0
Less is more/Less and more0
Triangulation0
The Thirty Boys0
The clash of sovereignties0
Them-you-us0
The future0
Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city0
Front Cover0
The vanishing villager0
Community-building and resilience in Uyghur meshrep in Kazakhstan0
The kingdom, the witch, and the general0
“Where it was, I must come into being”0
Embodying and fashioning headship0
“Again you will plant vineyards”0
In fear of spatiotemporal overlap0
Brotherhood at times of war0
Concept-work0
Creation stories0
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism0
The entrepreneurial self of market socialism0
Defetishizing money: Perspectives from economic anthropology0
Failures of being0
Time, grief, and hope on film0
Uyghur suffering, uncertainty, and academic interpretation0
Avatar, personified0
A life worth telling?0
Politics of indifference0
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points0
Darwin’s hug0
But is it art?0
The semantics of akisemem0
“This kingdom will not be like the kingdom(s) in the era of Gbudue”0
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more0
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2)0
Law, society, and the anthropology of noncontemporaneous contemporary0
Moral custodianship between friends0
A short biography of Fritz Krause0
In defense of the heart0
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East0
Movements and margins0
Food shortage and its discontents during the Shanghai lockdown0
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination0
Nature itself0
People, plants, plantations0
Witnessing environments0
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date0
Spreading whose word?0
Front Cover0
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves0
Filming as being, images as evidence0
Natural relativism in lieu of moral absolutism0
Front Cover0
Ephemeral utopia: Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey0
Iconizing ikona0
Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination0
Fifty years of resistance on film0
The affective economy of democracy0
Unable to see the diagnosis0
What’s in a family?0
Life-giving and death-dealing powers0
The tone of justice0
Introduction0
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe0
Tabula rasa0
When we were modern0
From lockdowns (fengcheng) to silence (jingmo)0
Towards a collaborative ethos0
Born again, again: Witchcraft, Pentecostal conversions, and spiritual rebirth in the Trobriand Islands0
Postcolonial politics of elimination?0
Can we wash away love with bleach? Affect, gender, and agency in Western Amazonia0
Fateful rite of passage0
Ethnography as creative improvisation0
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation0
Multimodal feminist testimony0
From busting cults to breeding cults0
The invention of Inventing an African alphabet0
“By name and no other”0
Front Cover0
Goddess in disguise0
Cinematic accompaniment and care in later life in Latin America0
Front Cover0
Noise viscerality0
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them0
Islam L.A. style0
The ruses of Amerindian art0
Android existence0
Comparisons and contradictions0
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions0
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology0
Front Matter0
Ordering being, divining time0
Magic, metaphysics, and methods0
Someone not exactly like the others0
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977–19970
God is everywhere0
Tradition, transformation, and charting futures0
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect0
Testimonies and the Uyghur genocide metanarrative0
Behind the “racism” of the 2019 Hong Kong protests0
From identity to ID card0
Two ways of being the Body of Christ0
The song of power0
An anathema for memory loss0
Towards a critical ethnography of political concepts0
Scales of knowing0
“They consider themselves very different”0
Life in old Beijing0
Seeing otherwise0
The collideroscopic sensorium0
The utility of ethnography for understanding (the Russo-Ukrainian) war0
From ethics to politics0
Data witnessing0
“Our sacrifices were in vain”0
Writing family0
Should Uyghurs be considered an Indigenous people?0
On fuzziness0
Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable0
People who live in glass houses0
Situated inconveniences and short-term temporalities0
How to do things with worlds0
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