• Posts Tagged ‘anthropology’

    Cultures of Belief — post-print version of article

    by  • 10 April, 2013 • anthropology, belief, Inner Mongolia, religion • 0 Comments

    As promised, here’s a post-print version of my Cultures of Belief article, which was published in Anthropological Theory. cultures-of-belief-post-print The text is identical to the journal version, but the formatting is different — this is the version I’m allowed to distribute according to the publishing agreement. If you have access to the journal, for...

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    Cultures of Belief – New paper out in Anthropological Theory

    by  • 10 April, 2013 • anthropology, belief, Mongolian Buddhism, religion • 0 Comments

    Anthropological Theory

    I’ve just had a new paper out in Anthropological Theory — this is behind a paywall, I’ll make a post-print version available through this website soon for those who don’t have access to the journal through an academic library. The paper is titled ‘Cultures of ignorance’. In a nutshell, the argument is that academic...

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    GDAT 2012: Debating “neoliberalism”

    by  • 5 December, 2012 • anthropology • 2 Comments

    GDAT 2012 panel and chair, 1 December

    On Saturday I had the pleasure of taking part in GDAT, an annual debate on anthropological theory hosted by Manchester University. GDAT, the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, was started in the late 80s by Tim Ingold, and has been organized and chaired more recently by Soumhya Venkatesan. This was the third GDAT...

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    The Anthropology of Ignorance

    by  • 17 April, 2012 • anthropology, ignorance • 1 Comment

    High, C., A. Kelly & J. Mair (2012). The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach

    High, C., Kelly, A., Mair, J. (eds.) 2012. The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach. New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. A new volume on the anthropology of ignorance, which I edited with Casey High and Ann Kelly, came out last week with Palgrave. I’m really pleased with the finished product, and that’s all down...

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