Sorcery and Christianity have been in an intimate and seemingly opposing relationship on the small Ahamb Island in Vanuatu for more than a century. While sorcery is seen as the most potent threat to the good life as it ...

This chapter explores an ongoing process of establishing local and indigenous user rights in Finnmark, Northern Norway. Our concern is the extent to which this ongoing process allows for what we tentatively refer to as ...

Since the late 1960s a major port in Australia and an important coal port, Gladstone in central Queensland expanded its capacity from 2010 to 2013 through the dredging of its western harbour. This would make it easier ...

This material has been published in Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality, edited by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme & Kenneth Sillander. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. ...

I will open this chapter with closures and close it with what I hope will become an opening. The closures I think of here are two. One is created by the alleged comparative dead end created by the ontological turn’s focus ...

At a time when the channels for academic publication seem to multiply at a staggering rate and the writer-to-readership ratio approaches 1, our fellows’ gaze becomes an ever scarcer commodity. Attentionseeking behaviour ...