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Foreword : The Return of Ethnographic Theory 1.1 Giovanni da Col and David Graeber

Themed David Graeber The divine kingship of the Shilluk: on violence, utopia and the 1 Articles human condition or elements for an archaeology of sovereignty Marshall Sahlins Twin-born with greatness: the dual kingship of Sparta 63 Gregory Schrempp Copernican kinship: an origin myth for the category 103 Alberto Corsín Jiménez Daribi kinship at perpendicular angles: a trompe l’oeil anthropology 141 Roy Wagner The chess of kinship and the kinship of chess 159 Preface by Tony Crook and Justin Shaffner Roy Wagner’s “The chess of kinship”: An opening gambit Chris Gregory Skinship. Touchability as a virtue in East-Central India 179

Varia Laura Nader Ethnography as theory 211 Anna Mann, Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment 221 Annemarie Mol, Priya Satalka, Amalinda Savirani, Nasima Selim, Malini Sur, Emily Yates-Doerr

Unedited Marilyn Strathern What is a parent? 245 Scholarship Edmund R. Leach Kingship and divinity. The unpublished Frazer Lecture, 1982 279

Forum Nicholas Thomas Von Hügel’s curiosity: Encounter and experiment in the new museum 299

Translations Maurice Godelier Bodies, kinship and power(s) among the Baruya culture 315 Maurice Godelier Begetting ordinary humans 345 Maurice Godelier Begetting extraordinary humans 391

Reprints E.E. Evans-Pritchard The divine kingship of the Shilluk 407 Julian Pitt-Rivers The place of grace in anthropology 423 David M. Schneider Some muddles in the models: or, how the system really works 451

THEMED ISSUE The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship

Edited by HAU Giovanni da Col and Stéphane Gros Journal of Ethnographic Theory Volume 1, Issue 1. Fall 2011

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Editorial Board

Catherine Allerton (LSE) Magnus Marsden (SOAS) Debbora Battaglia (Mount Holyoke Annemarie Mol (Amsterdam) College) George Mentore (Virginia) Amita Baviskar (Delhi University Daniel Miller (University College Enclave) London) Niko Besnier (Amsterdam) Jadran Mimica (Sydney) Chen Bo (Sichuan University) Annemarie Mol (Amsterdam Matei Candea (Durham) Howard Morphy (ANU) Alberto Corsin-Jimenez (CSIC, Spain) Katsuo Nawa (Tokyo) Inge Daniels (Oxford) Morten Nielsen (Aarhus University) Gregory Delaplace (Cambridge) Morten Pedersen (Copenhagen) Philippe Descola (Collège de France) Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge) Bum-Ochir Dulam (Ulan Bator) Charles Piot (Duke) Gary Dunham (American Speech- Michael Ralph (NYU) Language-Hearing Association) Adam Reed (St Andrews) Jeanette Edwards (Manchester) Knut Rio (Bergen) Carlos Fausto (Museu Nacional, Rio de Joel Robbins (UCSD) Janeiro) Hanan Sabea (American University in Jeanne Favret-Saada (EPHE) Cairo) Maurice Godelier (EHESS) Marshall Sahlins (Chicago) Sarah Green (Manchester) Gregory Schrempp (Indiana) Chris Gregory (Nanterre) Michael Scott (LSE) Stephen Gudeman (Minnesota) Andrew Shryock (Michigan) Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) Rupert Stasch (UCSD) Keith Hart (Goldsmiths College London) Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) Stefan Helmreich (MIT) Paul Tapsell (University of Otago) Chris Kelty (UCLA) Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Holly High (Sydney) Archaeology and Anthropology, Eric Hirsch (Brunel) Cambridge) Martin Holbraad (UCL) Mark Turin (Cambridge/Yale) Signe Howell (Oslo) Edith Turner (Virginia) Shun-Ming Huang (Academia Sinica, Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Rio Taiwan) de Janeiro) Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge) Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) Deborah James (LSE) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Casper Bruun Jensen (Copenhagen) (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) Bruce Kapferer (Bergen) Roy Wagner (Virginia) Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris) Wang Mingming (Peking University) James Leach (Aberdeen) Mike Wesch (Kansas State) Nancy Levine (UCLA) Nul Yalman (Harvard) Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge) Yan Yunxiang (UCLA)

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Editors-in-Chief Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) Justin Shaffner (University of Mary Washington) Managing Editor Stéphane Gros (CNRS) Associate Editor Rachel Douglas-Jones (Durham) Editor-At-Large David Graeber (Goldsmiths College, London) Editorial Assistants Harriet Boulding (SOAS) Mylene Hengen (EHESS) Philip Swift.

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Acknowledgements

Anthropologists should be not be islands but kula nodes, hence it would be foolish to think this volume or even the foreword could rise and stand without other legs, gifts and hosts. Our gratitude goes to all the other heroes of HAU’s Editorial team and the external copyeditors who made the realization of this 500 page volume possible: Phil Swift, Mylène Hengen, Harriet Boulding, Amiria Salmond, Nathan Hedges. We extend our profound thanks to our HAU-NET partners and sponsors, as well as the people behind the institutions who believed in this project: CNRS (Stéphane Gros and the Centre d’Etudes Hymalayennes), Sydney (Holly High), Manchester (Sarah Green, Jeanette Edwards and Karen Sykes), Amsterdam (Annemarie Mol and Niko Besnier). Great gratitude goes to Alan Macfarlane and the Rivers Video Project for being HAU’s first benefactor. Special thanks also to Bo Alkjær, Debbora Battaglia, Louisa Brown, Tony Crook, Carlos Fausto, Jeanne Favret- Saada, Shineen Galloway and the Evans-Pritchard family, Maurice Godelier, Marcio Goldman, Alex Golub, Stephen Gudeman, Keith Hart, Signe Howell, Caroline Humphrey, Wendy James, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Bruce Kapferer, Nancy Levine, the Library of the London School of Economics, Carole McGranahan, George Mentore, Wang Mingming, Katsuo Nawa, Morten Nielsen, Françoise Pitt-Rivers, Charles Ramble, Joel Robbins, Marshall Sahlins, Andrew Shryock, Marilyn Strathern, Mark Turin, Edith Turner, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Roy Wagner. For their support, we would like to thank all of the Members of the Editorial Board, the kind anonymous reviewers, all the authors who contributed to this inaugural issue and Verso Books, for kindly making available free of charge two chapters of the forthcoming translation of Maurice Godelier’s Metamorphoses of Kinship. And finally, we extend our gratitude to teachers, mentors and inspirers who supported HAU’s vision well before the journal’s inception.

Table of Content 2011, Volume 1, Issue 1

FOREWORD The return of ethnographic theory. Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) and David Graeber (Goldsmiths) vi

THEMED ARTICLES. The G-factor of anthropology: archaeologies of kin(g)ship Edited by Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) and Stéphane Gros (CNRS) David Graeber (Goldsmiths), The divine kingship of the Shilluk: on 1 violence, utopia and the human condition or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty Marshall Sahlins (Chicago), with the assistance of Philip Swift, Twin-born 63 with greatness: the dual kingship of Sparta Gregory Schrempp (Indiana), Copernican kinship: an origin myth for the 103 category Alberto Corsín Jiménez (CSIC Spain), Daribi kinship at perpendicular 141 angles: A trompe l’oeil anthropology Roy Wagner (Virginia), The chess of kinship and the kinship of chess 159 Preface by Tony Crook and Justin Shaffner, Roy Wagner’s “The chess of kinship”: an opening gambit Chris Gregory (ANU), Skinship. Touchability as a virtue in East-Central 179 India

VARIA Laura Nader (Berkeley), Ethnography as theory 211 Anna Mann (Amsterdam), Annemarie Mol (Amsterdam), Priya Satalkar, 221 Amalinda Savirani (Gadjah Mada), Nasima Selim (BRAC), Malini Sur (Amsterdam) and Emily Yates-Doerr (Amsterdam), Mixing methods, tasting fingers. Notes on an ethnographic experiment

UNEDITED SCHOLARSHIP Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge), What is a parent? 245 Edmund R. Leach, Kingship and divinity. The unpublished Frazer Lecture, 279 1982.

FORUM Nicholas Thomas (MAA, Cambridge), Von Hügel’s curiosity. Encounter 299 and experiment in the new museum

TRANSLATIONS Maurice Godelier (EHESS), Bodies, kinship and power(s) among the 315 Baruya culture Maurice Godelier (EHESS), Begetting ordinary humans 345 Maurice Godelier (EHESS), Begetting extraordinary humans 391

REPRINTS E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The divine kingship of the Shilluk 407 Julian Pitt-Rivers, The place of grace in anthropology 423 David M. Schneider, Some muddles in the models: or, how the system 451 really works 2011

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