Anthropological work on political theology has been informed by Agamben's work on the
state of exception and, thus, by a Schmittian account of sovereignty as analogous to that of …

The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving
standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social …

Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to state social protection and its
limitations. Less attention has been paid to what is likely the world's largest system of …

The recently re-branded and highly digitalised Bolivian Tax Office, Servicio de Impuestos
Nacionales (SIN), works to consolidate various socio-economic groups, such as the Aymara …

In recent years anthropologists have increasingly conducted fieldwork among economic
agents and on financial practices that would have seemed foreign to our predecessors of …

This article addresses a failed tax lottery in the country of Georgia's rapid yet shaky political
and economic development. The purpose of a tax lottery is to formalize transactions and …

In many parts of the world, the modernist ideal of centralised and networked infrastructure
provided by the state remains just that–an ideal. Instead, the reality is a patchwork of …

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When nine Ghanaian banks collapsed during the country's 2017–2019 financial crisis, a
Charismatic Pentecostal pastor was at the center of public accusations as the board …

This review article surveys all of the articles published in the major Anglophone European
social anthropology journals in 2020. Taking a perspective from Joel Robbins' theorising of …