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Season’s Greetings and
Happy Holidays from HAU!

Presenting:
Volume 7, Issue 3
Winter 2017

<https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/current>

 We are delighted to present our eighteenth issue, a classic Christmas gift
with 480 pages of HAU winter snow flakes (and gleaming sun rays for our
Austral friends).
Our rich issue begins with our new Shortcuts section on “Why we read the
classics” with contributions by Giovanni da Col, Claudio Sopranzetti, Fred
Myers, Anastasia Piliavsky, Yarimar Bonilla, Adia Benton, and Paul Stoller.
This shortcut collection was sparked by Marshall Sahlins' self-proclaimed
rant last summer on HAU’s Facebook and the heated discussion it ensued, and
is followed by a timely Debate on gun culture in the United States.
Anthropology is responding to the Las Vegas shooting with its theoretical
apparatus: how and why do American gun owners deploy a particular ethical
system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence? We are then
honoured to host the transcript of the 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture by
Purina Mankekar and Akhil Gupta (the fifth instalment of the HAU-Rochester
Morgan lectures initiative), followed by the 2017 Stirling Lecture by Alf
Hornborg. Similarly, we are proud to offer you a series of beautiful
articles: John Borneman and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi on the concept of
Stimmung and the refugee crisis in Germany (with comments by Heinz Bude,
Heath Cabot and Chris Hann); Mareike Winchell on economies of obligation,
patronage, and gold mining in Bolivia; David Valentine on ideas of gravity
and humanness seen from the outer space; Alexandre Suralles on how
international legal treaties address the question of non-humans; and
Frederick Klaits on the anthropology of events, prophetic causation and
violated social contracts. The issue then moves to a special section on
“The Real Economy” edited by Federico Neiburg and Jane Guyer, with articles
by Deborah James, Maxim Bolt, Horacio Ortiz, and Fabian Muniesa. We then
follow with a special gift in our Forum section, “How to build a book:
notes from an editorial bricoleuse," a hands-on, nitty-gritty writing and
thinking guide by the editor of anthropology and history at the University
of Chicago Press, Priya Nelson. This issue's book Symposium showcases a
state-of-the-art discussion on the anthropological category of magic,
revolving around the publication of Graham Jones’ book Magic’s Reason: An
anthropology of analogy, with contributions by Rena Lederman (who edited
the collection), Mark Mosko, Tanya Luhrmann, Margaret Wiener, Martin
Zillinger, and a response from the author. We have another gift under the
tree with an unedited piece by Daniel Miller, presenting an anthropological
lens on and theory of Christmas. We follow with a translation of a lecture
by Marcel Mauss on the relation between ‘wages’ and ‘wedding,’ edited and
prefaced by Mario Schmidt. We conclude a magical Christmas issue with a
classic on performative magic: Stanley J. Tambiah’s Form and meaning of the
magical act.

With contributions by Giovanni da Col, Claudio Sopranzetti, Fred Myers,
Anastasia Piliavsky, John L. Jackson, Jr., Yarimar Bonilla, Adia Benton,
Paul Stoller, Joe Anderson, Deborah Durham, Niklas Hultin, Hugh Gusterson,
Charles F. Springwood, Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta, Alf Hornborg, John
Bornerman, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Heinz Bude, Heath Cabot, Chris Hann,
Mareike Winchell, David Valentine, Alexandre Surralles, Frederick Klaits,
Federico Neiburg, Jane Guyer, Deborah James, Maxim Bolt, Horacio Ortiz,
Fabian Muniesa, Priya Nelson, Rena Lederman, Mark Mosko, Tanya Luhrmann,
Margaret Wiener, Martin Zillinger, Graham Jones, Daniel Miller, Mario
Schmidt, Marcel Mauss, and Stanley J. Tambiah.

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The HAU-Rochester Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures Initiative

"Future Tense: Capital, Labor, and Technology in a Service Industry"
Watch the lecture on Vimeo
<https://vimeo.com/241758657>

Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
industry has grown to employ 700,000 young people in India. Future Tense is
an anthropological study of call center workers in the outsourcing hub of
Bengaluru. These young workers spend their nights interacting by phone and
online with consumers in the US, UK, Australia, and elsewhere. The study
focuses on the affective dimensions of work in the BPO industry, asking:
How does the experience of work produce particular understandings of time,
embodiment, and sociality? The research explores the complex interplay
between work, personal aspirations, social futures, and transformations in
global capitalism. This industry has had contradictory effects that lead
both to upward mobility but also to precocity. Challenging superficial
accounts of predatory corporations in the Global North using “coolie labor”
in the Global South to enhance profits through off-shoring and outsourcing,
we draw on long-term fieldwork to argue that such simplistic narratives
fail to capture the complexity and density of interactions between
imagination, aspiration, technology, and work for upwardly-mobile classes
in the Global South. New technologies such as artificial intelligence,
chat, and the digitization of work constantly transform the experiences of
workers in this industry. Their experiences provide us with critical
insights into capital, labor, and information technology in our rapidly
changing world.

The fifth installment of the multimedia feature of the HAU-Morgan Lectures
Initiative brings you Professor Gupta and Mankekar’s 2017 Morgan Lectures
in video format.

<https://www.haujournal.org/haunet/gupta.php>

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New Centre for Ethnographic Theory to be launched in Brazil in 2018!

We are thrilled to announce that an initiative spearheaded by Luiz Costa
(UFRJ) and Federico Neiburg (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) in
collaboration with HAU has completed the preparation for the launch of a
new Centre for Ethnographic Theory - Brazil in 2018. The Centre will be
housed the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); it will have an office at the
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; and it will host foreign
researchers (via fellowships) and organize international workshops. The
Centre will also inaugurate and host the Annual Curt Nimuendajú Memorial
Lecture, celebrating the work of the great German ethnologist who dedicated
his life to the Indigenous people of Brazil. The first lecture will be held
in November 2018 and the lecturer will be announced shortly. The Centre
will be run by an international board and a local exectutive board. We are
proud and delighted to see the family of HAU Centres and networks growing.
This is a huge achievement for us in the attempt to foster ethnographic
theory from the Global South.

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Events
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Announcing the Second A.M. Hocart Memorial Lecture

The second A. M. Hocart Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Danilyn
Rutherford  (University of California Santa Cruz and Wenner-Gren
Foundation) at The Centre for Ethnographic Theory at SOAS, University of
London on Monday, 23 April, 2018.

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Announcing the Stephen F. Gudeman Lectureship in Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, to be published in HAU!

The Gudeman Lectureship in Anthropology is a new series that will be hosted
by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities in honor of the many years Stephen F. Gudeman was a faculty member
who worked in its intellectually open and supportive environment. The
Lectureship is meant as a stage for talks in Social and Cultural
Anthropology that focus on the following topics: economies in relation to
their social contexts, the wider effects of economy on society, the use of
ethnography in the study of contemporary life, and the impact of
ethnographic research on social theory.

The first Gudeman Lecture will be given by Adam Kuper on Wednesday, 2 May
2018: “Deconstructing Anthropology”

Anthropology started out as the science of the savage. It has become the
science of the Other. The Other is our opposite number, our alter-ego,
ourselves turned upside down. The savage was the last free man, perhaps –
at one with nature and the spirit world, an intuitive artist. For Darwin,
however, he was little better than an animal; for Lévy-Bruhl, he was
pre-logical; in Freudian fantasy, he was polymorphically promiscuous. He
has been represented as the binary opposite of Economic Man by Malinowski
and Mauss – and, sometimes, by Gudeman.

I will invite you to deconstruct anthropology’s most venerable avatars: the
savage, the primitive, the tribesman, the indigenous; the man of culture
and the civilized person; the rationalist and the irrationalist; the
individual and the “dividual”. Perhaps we can then make a start on the
reconstruction of the discipline.

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Online Gods: A Podcast about Digital Cultures in India and Beyond

From Project ONLINERPOL and HAU
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and
elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith,
the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital
world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?

Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political
ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.

Listen to Episode 4: Rumours and the Agents of Ishq <
https://www.haujournal.org/haunet/onlinegods.php>

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From now until January 31, 2018, use the HAU Books Holiday promo Code
AD1686 to get 30% off any of our titles ordered through the University of
Chicago Press.
<https://haubooks.org/titles/>

Recent releases from HAU Books:

World: An Anthropological Examination by João de Pina-Cabral (Malinowski
Monographs Series)
Ways of Baloma by Mark S. Mosko (Malinowski Monograph Series)
The Art of Life and Death by Andrew Irving (Malinowski Monograph Series)
Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory by Matthew Carey (Malinowski Monograph
Series)
From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus by Julian
Pitt-Rivers, edited by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock
On Kings by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins
Two Lenins by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Malinowski Monograph Series)
The Owners of Kinship: Asymmetrical Relations in Indigenous Amazonia by
Luiz Costa
The Fire of the Jaguar, by Terence S Turner

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