The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about
the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn …

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the
importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the …

Demand diminished for natural at the resources start of the such 21st as century oil, water,
despite and land growing remain public un-diminished at the start of the 21st century despite …

This article seeks to address how topological approaches to cultural change might be
combined with ethnographic analysis in order to suggest new ways of thinking empirically …

Material things are not just passive recipients of human categories, meanings and values,
nor mere subjects of human agency. Their particular characteristics and behaviours are …

It is 60 years since Karl Wittfogel highlighted a key relationship between political power and
the ownership and control of water. Subsequent studies have suggested, commensurately …

This article sets out to analyze how concrete is implicated in the transformation of public
space in provincial Peru. While concrete enhances a state's capacity to produce reliable …

More than a decade after the controversies marking the reception of the cultural turn in the
anglophone historical community, it is timely to consider some of the outcomes of the …

Finalist, 2021 ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Gone to Ground is an investigation into the
material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in …

Veronica Strang has written an excellent account of the fluid relationships between humans
and the non-human materiality of water. The very idea of anthropology of water challenges …