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Presenting an All Hallows’ HAU
HAU: JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY
Volume 6, Issue 2
Autumn 2016
Our 14th Bounty.
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We are delighted to present the release of HAU's 14th issue on this All Hallow's Eve, with publications apropos of this annual carnival, which merges the dark, the light, and the parodic. This issue begins with an editorial note from our two new interim editors—Michael Lambek and Amira Mittermaier—and then follows with a debate on Sherry Ortner's "Dark anthropology and its others" (published in HAU, Volume 6.1, Summer 2016), a lecture from Janice Boddy on shifting paradigms concerning female genital cutting, and five research articles on the following topics: political communication and the Donald Trump phenomenon in US politics, ritual and the semiotics of comedy in Mexico, prophecy and textuality in Assam (Northeast India), Japanese spirit-worlds, and gold extraction regimes in Sudan. This issue also includes a Special Section, edited by Bhrigupati Singh and Jane I. Guyer, on the "joyful" side of anthropology's history (with six articles, an introduction, and a colloquium), a colloquium on the semiotics of the anthropocene and "comparative grounds" by Paul Kockelman, a forum on art and anthropology by Roger Sansi and Marilyn Strathern, a Book Symposium on David Price's Cold war anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology, the release of James Woodburn's seminal (and previously unpublished) article on the phenomenon of "silent-trade," and a reprint of Michael Gilsenan's classic article on lying, honor, and contradiction in a Lebanese village.
With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, David Graeber, Carol Greenhouse, James Laidlaw, Danilyn Rutherford, Sherry Ortner, Janice Boddy, Kira Hall, Donna M. Goldstein, Matthew Bruce Ingram, Marianna Keisalo, Arkotong Longkumer, Casper Bruun Jensen, Miho Ishii, Philip Swift, Sandra Calkins, Bhrigupati Singh, Jane I. Guyer, Holly Swyers, Victor Kumar, Stephanie Frank, Shannon Morreira, Edgardo Krebs, Andrew Brandel, Jason J. Price, Paul Kockelman, Roger Sansi, Marilyn Strathern, Carole McGranahan, Katherine Verdery, Ilana Feldman, Laura Nader, David Price, James Woodburn, and Michael Gilsenan
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AAA ANNOUNCEMENT REMINDER
INTRODUCING: THE ANNUAL DEBATE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KEYWORDS (ADAK)
A partnership between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L’Homme
Thursday, November 17th @ 4:00 pm - 5:45 pm — Salon B (Hilton) — Minneapolis
We are pleased to announce that three scholarly organizations and journals, all from different countries and intellectual traditions—the American Ethnological Society (AES), HAU, and L’Homme—have joined to launch a new annual event for the development of anthropological theory: the Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords (ADAK). The aim is to hold an annual debate around keywords and terms playing a pivotal and timely role in discussions of different cultures and societies. We are pleased to launch the first debate at the 2016 AAA meetings in Minneapolis with the keyword: FAKE.
The term "fake" covers a wide and timely terrain—forgery, faking it, copies, counterfeiting, make believe, frauds, parody, bullshit, fake theory, plagiarism, fake documents, and so on. Even within academia we often deal with fakes, hoaxes, and frauds (or the fear of being a fraud), and with issues of plagiarism that highlight a delicate boundary between theft of knowledge or its imitation to generate novel views. Thus imposter religious figures, fake goods, fake identities, corrupted foods, counterfeit medications, copyrights and “copy left,” can all be employed towards the service or revelation of truth. Where trust and truth have been deemed the glue of human relationships and the motor of cooperative interactions, this roundtable will question how deception and mistrust seem to produce effective, albeit opaque forms of sociality. The roundtable will be organized as follows: an introduction to the topic and organization of the debate, timed presentations by each of the debaters, and then short responses to each other’s presentations, followed by an open question and answer session with the audience. This is a timely topic considering that the current political climate across the globe is filled with figures surrounded with auras of fakery and impostership—charlatans and professionals alike.
Organizers: Giovanni da Col (SOAS), Hugh Gusterson (George Washington University), Carole McGranahan (Colorado), Caterina Guenzi (EHESS), and Cléo Carastro (EHESS)
With the participation of:
John L. Jackson Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins)
Gabriella Coleman (McGill)
Carlo Severi (EHESS)
Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley)
Giovanni da Col (University of London, SOAS)
Graham Jones (MIT)
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AAA ANNOUNCEMENT: JOIN HAU AND SAVAGE MINDS FOR A GLAMOROUS CELEBRATION AT THIS YEAR’S AAA MEETINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN
At this year's AAA Meetings in Minneapolis, HAU once again teams up with Savage Minds (www.savageminds.org <http://www.savageminds.org/>) to bring you the most glamorous anthropological reception of the year. We will hold our reception (cash bar) on Saturday, November 19th at 9:30 pm at the Constantine Bar, in the Hotel Ivy, 1115 2nd Ave S., Minneapolis. The venue is a few minutes walk from the Convention Center. Join us to celebrate the release of new titles, old projects, and exciting plans for the future of our discipline.
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JOIN US IN WELCOMING INTERIM EDITORS: MICHAEL LAMBEK AND AMIRA MITTERMAIER
While Giovanni da Col, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, takes a much needed 6-month sabbatical from the journal, we invite you to warmly welcome his temporary replacements: Michael Lambek and Amira Mittermaier, both from University of Toronto. This current issue of the journal is Michael and Amira's first issue as interim editors of HAU and we look forward to working with them on the next few issues during Giovanni's break.
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HAU APP UPDATES FOR APPLE iOS 10 USERS COMING SOON
Although the HAU App is working smoothly for Android and Apple iOS 9 (or earlier) users, the software is currently being updated, debugged, and streamlined for Apple iOS 10 users. Please check the app site for future updates to your iOS 10 mobile phone or tablet:
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~The HAU Editorial Team
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