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Vital infrastructures

Presenting:
Volume 9, Number 2
Autumn 2019

We are delighted to present our 22nd issue, with twenty articles that remain free to download for one month. Five articles will be permanently open access. Enjoy!

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
  Vital infrastructures
Deborah Durham, Mariane C. Ferme, and Luiz Costa
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LECTURE, Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2018
  Inquiries raised by the dead
Vinciane Despret
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REJOINDERS
  Inquiries raised by the living
Joël Noret
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The ends of the dead
Michael Lambek
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BOOK SYMPOSIUM
  Mistrusting knowledge
Kamala Russell
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Mistrust and trust: Conjoined twins?
Peter Geschiere
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No need of trust
Marina Vanzolini
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ARTICLES
  Teungku Sum’s dilemma: Ethical time, reflexivity, and the Islamic everyday
Daniel Andrew Birchok
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  Magic is science: Atheist conjuring and the exposure of superstition in South India
Stefan Binder
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  The digitalia of everyday life: Multi-situated anthropology of a virtual letter by a “foreign hand”
Raminder Kaur
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  Valueless value: The question of production in Cofán shamanism
Michael Cepek
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  Greek divination from an Amerindian perspective: Reconsidering “nature” in mantike
Tomás Bartoletti
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COLLOQUIUM
  Climaxing in other ways and other places: From plant spasms to psychopomp pillows
Agnès Giard, Emmanuel Grimaud, and Anne-Christine Taylor
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THEMED COLLECTION: THE TURN TO LIFE, PART 2
  Road animism: Reflections on the life of infrastructures
Matthäus Rest and Alessandro Rippa
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  The river grew tired of us: Spectral flows along the Mekong River
Andrew Alan Johnson
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  Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro: Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric
Knut Christian Myhre
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  Karma and grace: Rivalrous reckonings of fortune and misfortune
Neena Mahadev
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  Life, domesticated and undomesticated: Ghosts, sacrifice, and the efficacy of ritual practice in early China
Michael Puett
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Amerindian political economies of life
Fernando Santos-Granero
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UNEDITED SCHOLARSHIP
  Contemporary counterconduct
Paul Rabinow
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Note from the editorial collective of HAU Journal

As readers of Hau, we had always appreciated the rich variety of material the journal included. As editors, we’re becoming even more attuned to its richness, and the complexities of pulling together such various formats and possibly even forms. Hau includes research articles submitted individually by authors from around the world, and subjected to a rigorous double-blind review process. We hope to expand the space devoted to individually submitted manuscripts in the future.

We also include work that is not subject to editing or revision—such as the reprints of materials that are now hard to find, translations, distinguished lectures, and colloquia. We publish short reflections on current issues—the “shortcuts” sections, and symposia on recently published books. Our hallmark, however, has always been the carefully curated and multiply reviewed special sections and special issues on provocative topics that are currently being debated or revisited in anthropology. We want to reiterate our call in the last issue for proposals for new and exciting formats from our readership.

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ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE:
Free Access and Open Global South Access (OSA) Programmes

The Society for Ethnographic Theory is firmly committed to the idea that access to knowledge and publishing quality must be achieved by mediating gratuity with sustainability. The journal pursues this ideal with two innovative models, where a balance between high publishing standards, knowledge sharing, and sustainability is achieved without relying on unpaid labour, famished departmental research budgets, and individual membership dues. We hope that moving forward, we will be an example for the many journals that still use unpaid graduate student labor for their editorial and production work. 

Each journal issue will be available to download for free for one month after release and be Green Open Access (in compliance with the UKRI requisites for REF submission). Each issue will include up to 5 Gold Open Access articles, which the Society would like to dedicate to Indigenous authors or scholars from the Global South.

THE RETURN OF THE NOVELLA:
Do you have a 20,000-word article? Send it to HAU!

Where would Mauss publish the Essai sur le Don today? And which contemporary journal could accommodate a 20,000-word detailed ethnography of ritual? Since its foundation, HAU journal has pursued publications of long essays in two parts, spread across two consecutive issues. The journal has been sensitive to the lack of venues for publishing long ethnographic articles that don’t necessarily prove a single point or for more theoretically expanded pieces (“archaeologies of thought”) that are not necessarily short monographs. We welcome long essays for publication in the journal and the book series. Please send your proposals to the editorial collective!

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