Britt Halvorson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 125990 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Britt Halvorson |
| NOMBRES | Britt |
| APELLIDO | Halvorson |
| FIRMA | HALVORSON B |
| AFILIACIONES | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1114-4280 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Religion and Economies
This chapter explores how anthropologists have debated and developed different tools to analyze the cultural articulation or interrelationship of religion and economies. It traces four cultural articulations around which considerable foundational work, or provocative discussions, have arisen: debt, credit, and possessions; neoliberalism and economic restructuring; value/values; and life forms, techno-scientific commodities, and bioprospecting. Am…
Ancestral cites
This article puts Protestant Christian communal practices that identify canonical figures in conversation with academic efforts to decolonize canons. It examines the enigmatic life of Malagasy Lutheran pastor and anticolonial activist Eugene Rateaver (1884-1962). Rateaver was controversially excommunicated from the Lutheran mission church in Madagascar in 1937 after being found guilty of unethical conduct. However, competing stories of him circul…
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
Epistemic stitching of race, power, and modernity in recent work on white supremacy
This essay examines the recent anthropological literature on white supremacy. We argue that this ethnographic literature presents innovative approaches for a theory of race, power, and capitalist modernity applicable to anthropology as a whole. To highlight this literature's analytical contributions, we pursue a close but not exhaustive review of recent studies of white supremacy, showing how ethnographers have expanded an influential theoretical…
A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 2000
This essay examines the gendering of anthropological theory by selectively exploring recent theoretical discussions on the ontological turn and semiotic anthropology. We argue that three distinct forms of exclusion underpin the gendering of theory. First, authors may include the work of women, considered inclusively, but exclude the relevance of gender and feminism in their contributions. We argue that this exclusion is evident in discussions of …
Malagasy art on the move
This article explores how white US Christians' home displays, including their decorative presentation of paintings, small sculptures, and other memorabilia of foreign travel, play a critical role in representing imperial geographies. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research on the current aid partnership between Lutherans in the US and Madagascar, which stems from American Lutheran mission work in southern Madagascar (1888-2004), the article …
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
Reassessing Charitable Affect
Charitable aid is sometimes characterized as an activity saturated with emotion, in which outpourings of feeling and care draw individual volunteers to the work (Muehlebach 2012, Adams 2013, Malkki 2015, Caldwell 2017). Yet the affective practice of humanitarian care can take different cultural forms, some of which may not appear deeply affecting. Drawing upon ethnographic research with the long-term US volunteers of a faith-based medical aid org…
Upward, Not Sunwise
Reviewed by: Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism by Kimberly Jenkins Marshall Britt Halvorson Kimberly Jenkins Marshall, Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism. lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 270 pp. A primary, enduring question for scholars of global neo-Pentecostalism has been the extent to which these religious movements, premised on forms of cultural "rupture," are actua…
Woven worlds
In this article, I examine the transition from charitable assistance to a professional model of humanitarianism in one American Lutheran agency that emerged from colonial missions to Madagascar. The agency, "International Health Mission" (IHM), primarily supplies medical technologies to Lutheran clinics in Madagascar, Tanzania, and Cameroon. I argue that popular material devices of relief provision, such as handmade bandages, tie the Christian hu…
Translating the Fifohazana (Awakening)
This essay focuses on the evangelism of charismatic American Lutheran churches in Minneapolis/St. Paul by Merina Malagasy Lutheran pastors affiliated with the Fifohazana movement of Madagascar. By analyzing healing services led by one Malagasy revivalist, I argue that we may better understand how American Lutherans and Malagasy Lutherans are renegotiating the meaning of global Lutheranism while 'reenchanting' the body as a central interface of re…
Woven worlds
In this article, I examine the transition from charitable assistance to a professional model of humanitarianism in one American Lutheran agency that emerged from colonial missions to Madagascar. The agency, "International Health Mission" (IHM), primarily supplies medical technologies to Lutheran clinics in Madagascar, Tanzania, and Cameroon. I argue that popular material devices of relief provision, such as handmade bandages, tie the Christian hu…
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 2000
This essay examines the gendering of anthropological theory by selectively exploring recent theoretical discussions on the ontological turn and semiotic anthropology. We argue that three distinct forms of exclusion underpin the gendering of theory. First, authors may include the work of women, considered inclusively, but exclude the relevance of gender and feminism in their contributions. We argue that this exclusion is evident in discussions of …
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
Malagasy art on the move
This article explores how white US Christians' home displays, including their decorative presentation of paintings, small sculptures, and other memorabilia of foreign travel, play a critical role in representing imperial geographies. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research on the current aid partnership between Lutherans in the US and Madagascar, which stems from American Lutheran mission work in southern Madagascar (1888-2004), the article …
Translating the Fifohazana (Awakening)
This essay focuses on the evangelism of charismatic American Lutheran churches in Minneapolis/St. Paul by Merina Malagasy Lutheran pastors affiliated with the Fifohazana movement of Madagascar. By analyzing healing services led by one Malagasy revivalist, I argue that we may better understand how American Lutherans and Malagasy Lutherans are renegotiating the meaning of global Lutheranism while 'reenchanting' the body as a central interface of re…
Ancestral cites
This article puts Protestant Christian communal practices that identify canonical figures in conversation with academic efforts to decolonize canons. It examines the enigmatic life of Malagasy Lutheran pastor and anticolonial activist Eugene Rateaver (1884-1962). Rateaver was controversially excommunicated from the Lutheran mission church in Madagascar in 1937 after being found guilty of unethical conduct. However, competing stories of him circul…
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
Epistemic stitching of race, power, and modernity in recent work on white supremacy
This essay examines the recent anthropological literature on white supremacy. We argue that this ethnographic literature presents innovative approaches for a theory of race, power, and capitalist modernity applicable to anthropology as a whole. To highlight this literature's analytical contributions, we pursue a close but not exhaustive review of recent studies of white supremacy, showing how ethnographers have expanded an influential theoretical…
Reassessing Charitable Affect
Charitable aid is sometimes characterized as an activity saturated with emotion, in which outpourings of feeling and care draw individual volunteers to the work (Muehlebach 2012, Adams 2013, Malkki 2015, Caldwell 2017). Yet the affective practice of humanitarian care can take different cultural forms, some of which may not appear deeply affecting. Drawing upon ethnographic research with the long-term US volunteers of a faith-based medical aid org…
Translating the Fifohazana (Awakening)
This essay focuses on the evangelism of charismatic American Lutheran churches in Minneapolis/St. Paul by Merina Malagasy Lutheran pastors affiliated with the Fifohazana movement of Madagascar. By analyzing healing services led by one Malagasy revivalist, I argue that we may better understand how American Lutherans and Malagasy Lutherans are renegotiating the meaning of global Lutheranism while 'reenchanting' the body as a central interface of re…
Woven worlds
In this article, I examine the transition from charitable assistance to a professional model of humanitarianism in one American Lutheran agency that emerged from colonial missions to Madagascar. The agency, "International Health Mission" (IHM), primarily supplies medical technologies to Lutheran clinics in Madagascar, Tanzania, and Cameroon. I argue that popular material devices of relief provision, such as handmade bandages, tie the Christian hu…
Upward, Not Sunwise
Reviewed by: Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism by Kimberly Jenkins Marshall Britt Halvorson Kimberly Jenkins Marshall, Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism. lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 270 pp. A primary, enduring question for scholars of global neo-Pentecostalism has been the extent to which these religious movements, premised on forms of cultural "rupture," are actua…
Reassessing Charitable Affect
Charitable aid is sometimes characterized as an activity saturated with emotion, in which outpourings of feeling and care draw individual volunteers to the work (Muehlebach 2012, Adams 2013, Malkki 2015, Caldwell 2017). Yet the affective practice of humanitarian care can take different cultural forms, some of which may not appear deeply affecting. Drawing upon ethnographic research with the long-term US volunteers of a faith-based medical aid org…
Malagasy art on the move
This article explores how white US Christians' home displays, including their decorative presentation of paintings, small sculptures, and other memorabilia of foreign travel, play a critical role in representing imperial geographies. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research on the current aid partnership between Lutherans in the US and Madagascar, which stems from American Lutheran mission work in southern Madagascar (1888-2004), the article …
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 2000
This essay examines the gendering of anthropological theory by selectively exploring recent theoretical discussions on the ontological turn and semiotic anthropology. We argue that three distinct forms of exclusion underpin the gendering of theory. First, authors may include the work of women, considered inclusively, but exclude the relevance of gender and feminism in their contributions. We argue that this exclusion is evident in discussions of …
Ancestral cites
This article puts Protestant Christian communal practices that identify canonical figures in conversation with academic efforts to decolonize canons. It examines the enigmatic life of Malagasy Lutheran pastor and anticolonial activist Eugene Rateaver (1884-1962). Rateaver was controversially excommunicated from the Lutheran mission church in Madagascar in 1937 after being found guilty of unethical conduct. However, competing stories of him circul…
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
Epistemic stitching of race, power, and modernity in recent work on white supremacy
This essay examines the recent anthropological literature on white supremacy. We argue that this ethnographic literature presents innovative approaches for a theory of race, power, and capitalist modernity applicable to anthropology as a whole. To highlight this literature's analytical contributions, we pursue a close but not exhaustive review of recent studies of white supremacy, showing how ethnographers have expanded an influential theoretical…
Religion and Economies
This chapter explores how anthropologists have debated and developed different tools to analyze the cultural articulation or interrelationship of religion and economies. It traces four cultural articulations around which considerable foundational work, or provocative discussions, have arisen: debt, credit, and possessions; neoliberalism and economic restructuring; value/values; and life forms, techno-scientific commodities, and bioprospecting. Am…
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