HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of HAU-Journal of Ethnographic Theory is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ordering being, divining time15
Destroying the negatives8
Appearance, disappearance, transience8
“Crimes against sovereignty”6
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule6
From reasons of state to individual interest6
Dreaming the path5
Diaspora as home5
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality5
Living in a world of others5
The role of volunteers in pilgrimage studies5
If oil palm is an agent in West Papua, it is a White agent5
Eliminate all illegal births5
Deception-based knowledge in Indigenous and scientific societies5
Introduction: The politics of negative affects in post-Reform China4
Someone not exactly like the others4
Front Cover4
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect4
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care4
“Bureaucratic shiyuzheng4
The sacred unbound4
A short biography of Fritz Krause4
“By name and no other”3
Learning about “human”3
Paul Rabinow, midst anthropology’s problems3
Untamed Amazonia3
Comparisons and contradictions3
Mirroring mirrors3
Introduction3
Reality remodeled3
“I feel like we skipped a social class”3
Sexual im/mobilities2
The logic of magic2
Twilight states2
The bait of falsehood, the carp of truth2
Life-giving and death-dealing powers2
Flows2
Destabilizing homophobia2
Rereading Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, fifty-five years later2
Front Cover2
Cultural apocalypses and psychopathological apocalypses2
Invention and grace2
Preface2
Islam L.A. style2
The ruses of Amerindian art2
The re-starting of history2
Ordering being, divining time2
Home as a second skin2
In defense of the heart2
The kingdom, the witch, and the general2
Avatar, personified2
Front Matter2
Meeting grounds1
Choose, judge, and move on1
Home in exile1
Embodied border control on the move1
People, plants, plantations1
Front Cover1
From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine1
Dó ăyèi! Dó ăyèi! Reclaiming political agency in Burma’s democracy era1
The song of power1
A home in the hicret1
Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research1
Seeing water1
Relational filmmaking1
Thinking about the law and hope, in dark times1
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven1
Censorship, foreclosure, and the three deaths of Fengzhen1
Front Cover1
Central Asian sociabilities1
Trad nationalist a/effects1
Virtue’s cosmos1
The clash of sovereignties1
A drum that speaks1
Portrayal of the vital world of a person living with Alzheimer’s, drawing on a close and intimate case1
As through a glass darkly1
Religion in action1
The Oka crisis1
Ethnographies of the unseen1
Front Matter1
Triangulation1
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge1
The semantics of akisemem1
Virtual embodiment in physical realities1
From ethics to politics1
Dancing, singing, and ethnography as political acts1
Subversive comparisons1
Agitation at the margins1
Towards a critical ethnography of political concepts1
The folds of the world: An essay on Mesoamerican textile topology1
Travel time activities1
Front Matter1
Writing kinship from within1
Self-formation in precarious conditions1
The giving palm1
Grey zones of the imagination1
The performative photograph1
What was fascism?1
Successful aging’s global moment1
Spotlight on the liminal dividend1
Goddess in disguise0
“We are the same”: Murdered Gimi women and Freud’s Totem and taboo0
Surreal events, “TV zombies,” and social media in postsocialist Kazakhstan0
Front Matter0
Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora (Part 2)0
Born again, again: Witchcraft, Pentecostal conversions, and spiritual rebirth in the Trobriand Islands0
How to do things with worlds0
Being Shia in Bangladesh0
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs?0
The settler-colonial ethical outlook in the West Bank settlement project0
Connectionwork0
Reflections on signs and sacrifice0
Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable0
Tradition, transformation, and charting futures0
“They consider themselves very different”0
Materiality, caring, and body memory in Bellido Valdivia’s Perpetual Person0
Response0
Coping with stress as a collective?0
Writing family0
The psychedelic ritual as a technique of the self0
Politics of matter and politics of ontology0
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more0
Two ways of being the Body of Christ0
Postcolonial politics of elimination?0
Deflecting responsibility0
Witness to a passing0
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust0
Burning translations0
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration0
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points0
Beyond breadth0
The social life of pathways0
Afterword0
Concept-work0
Time and space in the work of Katherine Verdery0
Erotic apprehension in Syrian and German encounters0
Scales of knowing0
Spreading whose word?0
Translator’s Preface0
Strategic commodification0
At the track0
Fateful rite of passage0
Religious and scientific aspects of Mandombe0
God is everywhere0
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial0
Catharsis after the hangover0
From busting cults to breeding cults0
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism0
Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts0
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves0
Practicing restraint0
Witnessing environments0
The Egyptian communities in Milan0
Marshall Sahlins, where are you? From the intellectual to the existential0
Frequency, modulation, and time in Amerindian art0
People who live in glass houses0
Relational beings modeled in clay within the depths of the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico0
Contemporary Shuar beliefs0
Witnessing from within0
Witnessing, refusal, and the conditions of investigation0
From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy0
Symbolized objects and signified identities0
Losing the plot0
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey0
Front Matter0
Law, society, and the anthropology of noncontemporaneous contemporary0
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file0
Revisiting the Azande0
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies0
Natural relativism in lieu of moral absolutism0
A perspective on science, ontology, and reflexivity0
Spatializing culture0
The tone of justice0
The polyphony of nature0
Movements and margins0
“Where it was, I must come into being”0
The nonanimistic worldview of Fritz Krause0
Front Matter0
Seeking antassu0
Fifty years of resistance on film0
Plantation capitalism as categorical violence0
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them0
Objects and images0
The Thirty Boys0
Noise viscerality0
“Again you will plant vineyards”0
Introduction0
Between speaking and enduring0
Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)0
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images0
Front Cover0
Gridlock0
Unable to see the diagnosis0
Creativity, courage, and care0
Scales of subversion0
There was no future in the past0
A treasury of ideas0
Smoke’s screens0
Android existence0
Embodying and fashioning headship0
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”0
Troubling complicities0
Darwin’s hug0
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination0
Rawa-Nore gifting0
One year later0
Wind, wood, and the entangled life of disasters0
Tabula rasa0
Objects, intimacy, citizenship: A response0
How newness enters the world0
Found again in translation? Standardizing the authenticity of guaraná among the Sateré-Mawé people (Brazilian Amazon)0
Seeing otherwise0
Risky business0
Amazonia by steam0
Introduction0
The collideroscopic sensorium0
Magic, metaphysics, and methods0
The pedigree of the house0
“I planted blind hope in their hearts”0
Uncanny ethics0
Everyday forgiveness0
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality0
Developing indifference0
Imperialist ideology or depoliticization? Why Russian citizens support the invasion of Ukraine0
Ethics and the spacetime discontinuum0
Community-building and resilience in Uyghur meshrep in Kazakhstan0
An exhibition in fieldwork form0
Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women0
Reflections on Unwritten Letters and the neorealism of contingency0
The burden of choice and the triumph of the event0
Afterword0
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism0
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women0
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East0
“A tradition from our ancestors”0
Anthro-artists0
Ethnology of Indigenous prophetic movements in the South American Lowlands0
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference0
Haptic experiments: Filming the person behind the illness0
The death of urban China0
Beyond order, beyond the human0
“Deaths by guns will never outnumber magic”0
The affective life of the Nanjing Massacre0
Queer subjects of intimate exclusion0
Affect, sociality, and the construction of paternalistic citizenship among family caregivers in China0
Insecurities of nativism0
Data witnessing0
Front Matter0
Front Cover0
The invention of Inventing an African alphabet0
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