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Introduction

Performance, Power, Exclusion, and Expansion in Anthropological Accounts of Protests

Aet Annist

( Youngs 2017 ), we are offering this topical special section to analyze protests through an ethnographic lens. Concentrating on power and performance, the articles consider the matrix within which the protests emerge—the time and space, the historic and

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Diane Duclos, Sylvain L. Faye, Tidiane Ndoye, and Loveday Penn-Kekana

act of locating, understood as an approach to capturing epistemologies in the making and to reflecting on the role and responsibilities of anthropology as a community of practice, will be used to understand how ‘performance’ was both studied and co

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Weapons for Witnessing

American Street Preaching and the Rhythms of War

Kyle Byron

responding to this imperative, street preachers transform streets, sidewalks, and other forms of urban infrastructure into sites of religious performance. 2 Referencing Filip De Boeck (2012) , Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox (2015: 5) describe

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Returning to Nature

Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

the ‘unmaking’ of coal as a resource in Svalbard? And what notions about nature and society are played out in processes of dismantling and ‘returning’? At first glance, the ‘returning’ can appear as a multifaceted performance of separating matter

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Conspicuous performances

Ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam

Tâm T. T. Ngô

After recognising Hmong Protestantism, the Vietnamese state continued an ‘anti‐conversion’ politics. It did so by encouraging the revival of what they saw as traditional Hmong religion as a bulwark against Protestantism and by enriching the range of cultural commodities for the growing ethno‐tourism market. For the non‐converts, not only their resistance of Christianity began to be redefined as ‘the battle’ against Christianity, their belief and practices, up to then highly despised of by authorities, began to be restructured in order to gain new strength to rebound on the national and global religious stage. The new consciousness of the non‐Christian Hmong, however, worried the Vietnamese state. This contribution charts the annual competitions held since 2005 between Christian and non‐Christian groups in Lao Cai province in organising yearly Hmong communal rituals. It shows that what was meant to become a folklorised bulwark against Christianity became a new mêlée of ritual competition, as pioneering Hmong quickly seized the central stage. Ritual festivals thus become arenas of identity struggle in which none of the usual identity markers (secular, religious, communist, Christian, modern, traditional) can be taken at face value.

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‘To the Extremes of Asian Sensibility’

Balinese Performances at the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition

Juliana Coelho de Souza Ladeira

had performed at the International Colonial Exhibition of 1931 in Vincennes. Rops’ article described the newly reconstructed Dutch Pavilion, the theatre where the Balinese presented themselves, the performance, and some of the reactions of the public

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“Falling down the Rabbit Fuck Hole”

Spectacular Masculinities, Hypersexuality, and the Real in an Online Doping Community

Jesper Andreasson and April Henning

identities, but also how they have been used as a means of producing social and cultural stability (see also Van de Ven et al. 2020). Hoberman suggests that image- and performance-enhancing drugs (IPEDs), through the medicalization of society ( Conrad 2007

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Physically Distant – Socially Intimate

Reflecting on Public Performances of Resistance in a Pandemic Situation

Marion Hamm

-arranged during this public performance (Hamm 2020) under lockdown. Based on fieldnotes, online communication on the day, open-ended digital strolls and peer-to-peer communication, I constructed a thick description by contextualising ethnographic scenes around

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Invisible and Visible Shi'a

Ashura, State and Society in Kuwait

Thomas Fibiger

the state’ ( Louër 2008: 45 ), supportive of and supported by the Sunni Al Sabah regime. Little is, however, written about this topic from the perspective of ritual performance on Ashura. Based on ethnographic observations of Ashura rituals in 2013