This article proposes “divine kinship” as an analytical tool with which to explore the relation between the divine, “the people”, and their political leaders and advance an ethnographically led comparative anthropology of democracy. More specifically, using the political ethnographies of five localities—North India, Venezuela, Montenegro, Russia, and Nepal—we discuss lived understandings of popular sovereignty, electoral representation, and political hope. We argue that charismatic kinship is crucial to understanding the processes by which political leaders and elected representatives become the embodiment of “the people”, and highlight the processes through which “ordinary people” are transformed into “extraordinary people” with royal/divine/democratic qualities.
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From the mouth of God
Divine kinship and popular democratic politics
Alice Forbess and Lucia Michelutti
Taras Fedirko and Marlene Schäfers
construction of economic realities, Katherine Verdery’s study offers an insightful analysis of economic and political hopes during the collectivization of agriculture in 1950s Romania. Verdery’s chapter seeks to understand how different groups of people
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Book Review
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- 143–146 (4 total)
Modern Revolutions and Beyond
An Interview with John Dunn
Benjamin Abrams and John Dunn
clearly distinguishes the kinds of revolution which have come more recently from the kind which you analyzed in 1972? A “Horizon of Political Hope” John Dunn (JD): When I wrote Modern Revolutions I was trying to think about revolution as a
Injury and Measurement
Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification
Anna Echterhölter
in his ancient law studies and a defender of the right to self-rule in the periphery, 3 there was hardly a more committed, outspoken enemy of French egalitarianism and civic codes, let alone the political hopes that went with the introduction of the
Humor, Amnesia, and Making Place
Constitutive Acts of the Subject in Gezi Park, Istanbul
Christopher Houston and Banu Senay
them a political ideology and more as incarnating a mode of embodied being that modeled a civil and ethical subjectivity. As the superior foundational element in their lives, Atatürk was also the cause of assurance for their political hopes, his very
Revolutionary abandon
Circles and machines in Sandinista Nicaragua
David Cooper
Sandinista politics has been lived within a community of FSLN supporters in a formerly collectivized agricultural cooperative—a community that once stood as a focal point of political hope in the project of revolutionary transformation ( Montoya 2007 ), but