Witnessing: virtual conversations In April and May 2019, we (this issue's editors) held two virtual conversations with three scholars who have made important contributions to the study of witnessing. Asale Angel-Ajani is an anthropologist
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In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 130–142 (13 total)
Committee as Witness
Ethics Review as a Technology of Collective Attestation
Rachel Douglas-Jones
this special issue point out, witnessing is a matter of public concern, and affective power. Where reference to it is present, questions arise about who may witness, what qualities they must have, for whom they see, and the technologies their
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 55–71 (17 total)
Witnessing and Testimony as Event
Israeli NGOs, Palestinian Witnesses, and the Undoing of Human Rights Bureaucracy
Omri Grinberg
family – Palestinians from a village near Nablus, in the north-east area of the Israel-occupied West Bank. The incident that was to be documented, and that the brothers were witnesses to, had occurred the night before: Jewish Israelis from a nearby
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 93–110 (18 total)
Afterword
For a Synaesthetics of Seeing
Naisargi N. Dave
as hungry, just as empty. —Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Each of the articles in this collection on the politics and ethics of witnessing shares a vital and vitalizing ambivalence about witnessing's promise. Beginning with Chua
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 143–149 (7 total)
Liana Chua and Omri Grinberg
‘My responsibility is to tell the truth’ On 27 September 2018, psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford stood before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee as a witness in a case that polarized the nation. Ford had alleged that
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–17 (17 total)
Ethnographic witnessing
Or, hope is the first anthropological emotion
Carole McGranahan
part of my life shifted, one aspect remained constant: the emails continued. Each week, and sometimes more than once, I received a request to serve as an expert witness in US political asylum cases for Nepali and Tibetan applicants. This is work I
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Other
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- 101–110 (10 total)
Witnessing the Unseen
Extinction, Spirits, and Anthropological Responsibility
Liana Chua
Unveiling the theme for its 2020 Annual Meeting, the American Anthropological Association announced: ‘Truth and Responsibility’ is a call to reimagine anthropology to meet the demands of the present moment. The imperative to bear witness, take
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 111–129 (19 total)
Weapons for Witnessing
American Street Preaching and the Rhythms of War
Kyle Byron
witnessing is “the plainest, most concentrated method for revealing and transmitting the Word of God, one in which language is intensified, focused, and virtually shot at the unwashed listener.” Likewise, John Fletcher (2003: 117) describes street preaching
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Research Article
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- 61–74 (14 total)
The IRR as False Witness
How the Institute of Race Relations Strategically Misinforms Us about Racism and Policy (as a Threat to Deliberative Democracy)
Phila M. Msimang
witnesses in court cases pertaining to farm murders and free speech. 10 This may explain why the most substantive parts of their reports are increasingly not data but commentary that is often tangential to the data that they present. In Jeffery (2021
What a Museum Cannot Bear Witness To
Bursa City Museum and the Representation of the Jewish Minority
Sercan Eklemezler
, cemeteries and collections, festivals, anniversaries, agreements, minutes, monuments, holy places, associations, and foundations are all outlier witnesses to another era; they are what Nora calls the dreams of eternity (2006). “These are the rituals of a