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Articles The force, the word and other musings beyond language and affects Magnus Course (Edinburgh), The birth of the word: Language, force, and Mapuche ritual authority 1 Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Rio de Janeiro), Immanence and fear: Stranger-events and subjects in Amazonia 27 Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE), Death at your heels: When ethnographic writing propagates the force of 45 witchcraft. Michael Uzendoski (Florida State), Beyond orality: Textuality, territoriality, and ontology among Amazonian 55 people Martin Holbraad (UCL), Truth beyond doubt: Ifá oracles in Havana 81 Sarah Green (Manchester), Reciting the future: Border relocations everyday speculations in two Greek 111 border regions Cosmographies of alterity and creativity Marshall Sahlins (Chicago), Alterity and autochthony: Austronesian cosmographies of the marvelous. 131 The 2008 Raymond Firth Lecture Magnus Fiskesjö (Cornell), Outlaws, barbarians, slaves: Critical reflections on Agamben’s homo sacer 161 Fernando Santos-Granero (Smithsonian), Beinghood and people-making in native Amazonia: A 181 constructional approach with a perspectival coda Carole McGranahan (Colorado), Mao in Tibetan disguise: History, ethnography, and excess 213 James Leach (Aberdeen), Constituting aesthetics and utility: Copyright, patent and the purification of 247 knowledge objects in an art and science collaboration Philip Swift (UCL), Touching conversion: Tangible transformations in a Japanese new religion. 269 The 2010 RAI Curl Essay Prize

Colloquia Jacob Copeman (Edinburgh) and Aya Ikegame (Open University), Guru logics 289 Wang Mingming (Peking), “All under heaven” (tianxia): Cosmological perspectives and political 337 ontologies in pre-modern China

Forum Special Feature Daniel Miller (UCL), Open Access, scholarship and digital 385 Responses by: Amita Baviskar, Don Brenneis, Carlos Fausto, Kim and Mike Fortun, Alex Golub, Sarah Green, Christopher Kelty, Martha Macintyre, Atsuro Morita, Carlo Severi Reply by Daniel Miller Theodoros Kyriakides (Manchester), “Nondualism is philosophy, not ethnography”: A review of the 2011 413 GDAT debate. Foreword by Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester), The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT): A brief introduction

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Unedited Scholarship Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Rio de Janeiro) and Marcio Goldman (Rio de Janeiro), Introduction to Post- 421 : Networks, multiplicities, and symmetrizations. Translated by Ashley Lebner

Translations Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE), Being Affected. Translated by Mylene Hengen and Matthew Carey 435 Philippe Descola (Collège de France), Beyond Nature and Culture: Forms of attachment. Translated by Janet 447 Lloyd Philippe Descola (Collège de France), Beyond Nature and Culture: The traffic of souls. Translated by Janet 473 Lloyd

Reprints Julian Pitt-Rivers, The law of hospitality 501 Edwin Ardener, Remote areas: Some theoretical considerations 519 Roy Wagner, Figure-ground reversal among the Barok 535

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Catherine Allerton (LSE) Nancy Levine (UC Los Angeles) Debbora Battaglia (Mount Holyoke College) Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge) Amita Baviskar (Delhi University) Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge) Niko Besnier (Amsterdam) Magnus Marsden (SOAS) Susanne Brandtstädter (Oslo University) Carole McGranahan (University of Marisol de la Cadena (UC Davis) Colorado-Boulder) Matei Candea (Durham University) George Mentore (Virginia) Chen Bo (Sichuan University) Daniel Miller (University College London) Jacob Copeman (Edinburgh) Jadran Mimica (Sydney) Alberto Corsin-Jimenez (Spanish National Annemarie Mol (Amsterdam) Research Council) Atsuro Morita (Osaka University) Inge Daniels (Oxford) Howard Morphy (ANU) Gregory Delaplace (Paris Ouest University Paul Nadasdy (Cornell) Nanterre La Défense) Katsuo Nawa (University of Tokyo) Philippe Descola (Collège de France) Morten Nielsen (Aarhus University) Bum-Ochir Dulam (National University of Morten Pedersen (Copenhagen) Mongolia, Ulan Bator) Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge) Gary Dunham (American Speech-Language- Charles Piot (Duke) Hearing Association) Michael Ralph (New York University) Jeanette Edwards (Manchester) Adam Reed (University of St Andrews) Carlos Fausto (Universidade Federal do Rio Knut Rio (University of Bergen) de Janeiro) Joel Robbins (UC San Diego) Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE) Hanan Sabea (American University in Cairo) Robert Foster (Rochester) Marshall Sahlins (Chicago) David Gellner (Oxford) Anne Salmond (Auckland) (EHESS) Gregory Schrempp (Indiana) Alex Golub (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Michael Scott (LSE) Sarah Green (Manchester) Carlo Severi (EHESS) Chris Gregory (ANU) Andrew Shryock (Michigan) Stephen Gudeman (Minnesota) Rupert Stasch (UC San Diego) Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) Keith Hart (Goldsmiths College, University Karen Sykes (Manchester) of London) Paul Tapsell (University of Otago) Stefan Helmreich (MIT) Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology Holly High (Sydney) and Anthropology, Cambridge) Eric Hirsch (Brunel) Mark Turin (Cambridge/Yale) Martin Holbraad (University College Edith Turner (Virginia) London) Terry Turner (Cornell) David Holmberg (Cornell) Serge Tchekerzoff Signe Howell (Oslo) (EHESS/ANU/Canterbury) Shu-min Huang (Academia Sinica) Aparecida Vilaça (Universidade Fedreal do Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge) Rio de Janeiro) Deborah James (LSE) Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) Casper Bruun Jensen (Copenhagen) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Universidade Bruce Kapferer (Bergen) Fedreal do Rio de Janeiro) Chris Kelty (UC Los Angeles) Richard Vokes (University of Canterbury) Heonik Kwon (Cambridge) Roy Wagner (Virginia) Patrice Ladwig (Max Planck Institute for Wang Mingming () Social Anthropology) Mike Wesch (Kansas State University) Michael Lambek (Toronto) Nur Yalman (Harvard) Bruno Latour (Sciences Po) Yan Yunxiang (UC Los Angeles) James Leach (Aberdeen)

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Editor-in-Chief Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) Managing Editor Stéphane Gros (CEH - CNRS)

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Table of Content 2012, Volume 2, Issue 1

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Giovanni da Col

ARTICLES. The force, the word and other musings beyond language and affects Magnus Course (Edinburgh), The birth of the word: Language, force, and 1 Mapuche ritual authority Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Rio de Janeiro), Immanence and fear: 27 Stranger-events and subjects in Amazonia Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE), Death at your heels: When ethnographic 45 writing propagates the force of witchcraft. Michael Uzendoski (Florida State), Beyond orality: Textuality, territoriality, 55 and ontology among Amazonian people Martin Holbraad (UCL), Truth beyond doubt: Ifá oracles in Havana 81 Sarah Green (Manchester), Reciting the future: Border relocations and 111 everyday speculations in two Greek border regions

Cosmographies of alterity and creativity Marshall Sahlins (Chicago), Alterity and autochthony: Austronesian 131 cosmographies of the marvelous. The 2008 Raymond Firth Lecture Magnus Fiskesjö (Cornell), Outlaws, barbarians, slaves: Critical reflections on 161 Agamben’s homo sacer Fernando Santos-Granero (Smithsonian), Beinghood and people-making in 181 native Amazonia: A constructional approach with a perspectival coda Carole McGranahan (Colorado), Mao in Tibetan disguise: History, 213 ethnography, and excess James Leach (Aberdeen), Constituting aesthetics and utility: Copyright, 247 patent and the purification of knowledge objects in an art and science collaboration Philip Swift (UCL), Touching conversion: Tangible transformations in a 269 Japanese new religion. The 2010 RAI Curl Essay Prize

COLLOQUIA Jacob Copeman (Edinburgh) and Aya Ikegame (Open University), Guru 289 logics Wang Mingming (Peking), “All under heaven” (tianxia): Cosmological 337 perspectives and political ontologies in pre-modern China

FORUM Special Feature Daniel Miller (UCL), Open Access, scholarship and digital anthropology 385 Responses by: Amita Baviskar, Don Brenneis, Carlos Fausto, Kim and Mike Fortun, Alex Golub, Sarah Green, Christopher Kelty, Martha Macintyre, Atsuro Morita, Carlo Severi Reply by Daniel Miller Theodoros Kyriakides (Manchester), “Nondualism is philosophy, not 413 ethnography”: A review of the 2011 GDAT debate. Foreword by Soumhya Venkatesan, The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT): A brief introduction

UNEDITED SCHOLARSHIP Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Rio de Janeiro) and Marcio Goldman (Rio de 421 Janeiro), Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology: Networks, multiplicities, and symmetrizations. Translated by Ashley Lebner

TRANSLATIONS Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE), Being Affected. Translated by Mylene 435 Hengen and Matthew Carey Philippe Descola (Collège de France), Beyond Nature and Culture: Forms 447 of attachment. Translated by Janet Lloyd Philippe Descola (Collège de France), Beyond Nature and Culture: The 473 traffic of souls. Translated by Janet Lloyd

REPRINTS Julian Pitt-Rivers, The law of hospitality 501 Edwin Ardener, Remote areas: Some theoretical considerations 519 Roy Wagner, Figure-ground reversal among the Barok 535

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