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Winter 2017 news from HAU:


HAU APP FOR APPLE iOS 10 AND ANDROID USERS: TRY THE NEW UPDATED VERSION
TODAY

The HAU App has now been updated, streamlined, and debugged. Over the next
year, we will continue to work on improving the interface and features of
the App. For now, enjoy the improved experience of reading your favorite
journal on your Apple or Android Tablet/Phone.

http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/pages/view/hauapp

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES (2018-2019): NEW DEADLINE

The editors of *HAU**: Journal of Ethnographic Theory* are delighted to
launch an international competition for special issues to be published in
2018 or 2019. Selected special issues, after publication in the journal,
will be made available in paperback by HAU Books (printed and distributed
by the University of Chicago Press). Previous titles, released as both a
journal issue and later in revised form in paperback, include:

2015. *Translating Worlds:The epistemological space of translation*.
Edited by Carlo Severi and William F. Hanks.

2016. *Values of Happiness: Toward an anthropology of purpose in life.*
Edited by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker.

We wish to reach out and engage the widest community of scholars working in
or from any part of the world to contribute, with groundbreaking work, to
the emergence of new ethnographically-inspired theories fostering advances
in human sciences and the understanding of current changes in society and
modes of thought.

On the basis of the proposals received, the editors of HAU, in consultation
with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further
consideration, and will notify guest editors about the acceptance within
six months after the submission of the complete manuscript. Those
short-listed will be asked to give names and contact details of 3 referees
who have agreed, if requested, to give their confidential appraisal of the
entirety of the submitted manuscript. Review reports will be requested from
only one of these nominated referees as well as external reviewers
nominated by the journal. The failure of referees nominated by the
proposers to produce a timely report may lead to the rejection of the
manuscript for publication. Final reports will be evaluated by the editors
and selected members of the Editorial Board and a winner of the competition
will be nominated.

Proposals should be submitted by *31 May 2017*.
Near complete manuscripts will be required by *31 December 2017*
A final decision based on reader’s reports will be given by *March 2018*.
The winning collection will be published in *Autumn or Winter 2018,* or *Spring
2019*.

To inquire or submit a proposal, please contact Michael Lambek, Interim
Editor at [log in to unmask] or Giovanni da Col, Editor-in-Chief at
[log in to unmask]

Download Call for Proposals Here: http://www.haujournal.org/
media/HAU_Call_for_Special_Issues_2018-2019.pdf
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REMINDER: HAU: JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY, VOLUME 6.3 (WINTER 2016)
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Our 15th Bounty. Our 5th Year.

Access Here: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/current

A reminder that *HAU Volume 6.3*, which we released on New Year's Eve 2016,
is available for download. Enjoy 492 pp. of classic and state-of-the-art
ethnographic theory.

This latest issue begins with Deana Jovanović's response to David
Berliner's edited debate on "Anthropology and the study of contradictions"
(published in HAU, Volume Volume 6.1, Summer 2016), Rupert Stasch's 2016
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture on "working misunderstandings" between Korowai
people and "first contact" tourists (a trasncript, part of our annual
HAU-Morgan Lectures initiative in partnership with the University of
Rochester), and a set of lectures and responses on "Teleologies of
structuralism," derived from seminars held at the University of Toronto and
the University of Chicago on structuralism's first century and beyond. This
is followed by two research articles (one on spirit cosmologies in the
Brazilian Umbanda religion and one on Fuambai Sia Ahmadu's experience of
undergoing a genital cutting initiation ritual among her
ancestral community in Sierra Leone, followed by a response from Ahmadu
herself). We are also very pleased to feature a special section on
"Language and Political Economy, Revisited," edited by Andrew Graan, with
seven articles and an afterword by Susan Gal, Part II of Paul
Kockelman's colloquium on the semiotics of the anthropocene and
"comparative grounds," a forum on historical anthropology qua memorial to
the late George Stocking, a Book Symposium on Marilyn Strathern's *Before
and after gender: Sexual mythologies of everyday life *(HAU Books, 2016), a
second Book Symposium on Richard Werbner's *Divination's grasp: African
encounters with the almost said* (Indiana University Press, 2015), a
previously unpublished translation of Julian Pitt-Rivers' lecture on "The
paradox of friendship" (forthcoming in *From hospitality to grace: A Julian
Pitt-Rivers omnibus* [HAU Books, 2017]), and, finally, two reprints on
fakery, deception, and repertoires of "belief" by Michael Taussig and Jean
Pouillon.

With contributions by Deana Jovanović, Rupert Stasch, Alejandro Paz,
Philippe Descola, Michael Lambek, Christopher Ball, Danilyn Rutherford,
Michael Silverstein, Diana Espírito Santo, Carlos David Londoño Sulkin,
Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, Andrew Graan, Miyako Inoue, Francis Cody, Bonnie
Urciuoli, Ilana Gershon, Rosemary Coombe, Amahl Bishara, Susan Gal, Paul
Kockelman, Richard Handler, Ira Bashkow, Jacqueline Solway, Lee D. Baker,
Gregory Schrempp, Marilyn Strathern, Sarah Green, Margaret Jolly, Annemarie
Mol, Richard Werbner, Frederick Klaits, David Coplan, Sónia Silva, Julian
Pitt-Rivers, Michael Taussig, and Jean Pouillon.

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HAU AND MQB SEMINAR: “HOW IMAGINATION IS SHARED” BY MAURICE BLOCH — WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 20th

The ongoing seminar, "Anthropology of the Imagination," co-sponsored by HAU
and Musée du Quai Branly - Jacque Chirac, and organized by Carlo Severi
(EHESS) and Giovanni da Col (SOAS), is pleased to present:

"HOW IMAGINATION IS SHARED"
A Seminar by Maurice Bloch (London School fo Economics)

Wednesday, January 20, 2017
17:30 - 19:30
Salle 1
Musée du Quai Branly - Jacque Chirac

Presenter's description of the seminar:

The topic of imagination presents a problem for social scientists. The term
imagination in everyday use implies a celebration of individual innovation.
In psychology also work on imagination has focussed on individual
creativity. Social scientists, on the other hand, are interested in shared
representations which negate individual creativity. The work I am engaged
in at present puts forward the argument that the human social is quite
different to that of other species in that it requires the imagination of
social relations that transcend continual fluidity. (What
structural-functionalists were talking about.) This transcendental is
therefore anti-empirical. It is both imaginary and shared. What I shall
argue is that, although humans are individually predisposed for this sort
of imagination, when they develop in a particular historically constructed
social context, as they must, this individual predisposition becomes
synchronised with that of other individuals so that it becomes shared. Part
of my argument will concern ritual.
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FORTHCOMING FROM HAU BOOKS (EARLY 2017)

A reminder of forthcoming titles from HAU Books, to be released in early
2017. Pre-Order your copies today:

WORLD: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
by João de Pina-Cabral
(Malinowski Monographs Series)
Pre-Order Here: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/
distributed/W/bo25470772.html
Pre-Order Here
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo25470772.html>

CLASSIC CONCEPTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
by Valerio Valeri
Edited by Giovanni da Col and Rupert Stasch
Pre-Order Here: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/
distributed/C/bo20552541.html

FROM HOSPITALITY TO GRACE: A JULIAN PITT-RIVERS OMNIBUS
by Julian Pitt-Rivers
Edited with an Introduction by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock
Afterword by Michael Gilsenan
Pre-Order Here: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/
distributed/F/bo22497806.html

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~The HAU Editorial Team

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Ellen Kladky
Senior Editorial Assistant
HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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