Erika Milam: One of the questions I have had about anthropology in recent years boils down to this: What do anthropologists share as a subject? It used to be culture. Bruno Latour…
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Making heads and making gods in the factory of religion
October 12, 2025
These conversations were stimulating and inspiring. What follows is a deliberately undisciplined series of thoughts (see Henry Cowles and Caleb Smith here) evoked by the conversations. The invitation to use Latour as…
October 12, 2025
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Rigor of chess masters, rigor of angels
October 12, 2025
In preparing my response to the conversation between Sarah Hammerschlag and Taylor Moore, I came across Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” Finding it highly relevant to the issues at stake,…
October 12, 2025
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Devoted to the church of Fugazi
October 12, 2025
What a weird format! I’m writing this essay on an airplane currently flying over the North Sea, and it’s hard not to feel like an overeager seatmate muscling my way into a…
October 12, 2025
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Bored with non-specific Protestant boredom
October 12, 2025
I am thankful for the invitation to read these illuminating conversations and to be part of a performance of cross-disciplinary scholarly exchange. As a scholar who finds himself betwixt and between, I…
October 12, 2025
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Out there, in here
October 12, 2025
In the winter quarter of 2016, I taught a graduate seminar at UC Santa Cruz that brought together multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of religion to consider humans as ontologically relational beings.…
October 12, 2025
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