N Halstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 11978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Halstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Halstead |
| SIGNATURE | HALSTEAD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1751-138X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do No Harm: From Which (Or Whose) Sides Must We Speak
The issue of harm in certain contexts and settings at some very fraught moments appears overly connected to anthropology: an idea of the discipline is made as the problem in a focus that can overshadow the actions of individuals and or institutional practices. This includes claims for anthropological harm that conflate the actions of particular individuals with the discipline. Alongside the potential harm in blaming anthropology, indiscriminately…
Digital and Offline: Partial Fields and Knowledge Producers
Partial processes of knowledge making, online and offline, demonstrate modes of experiential newness. Indicative of the 'shocks' and joined curations of field encounters, such experiences re-engage anthropological debatesas being of the present. The extended field suggests vast change and unlimited spaces to engage participants and 'invite' new unrelatable publics. The reflections and encounters disturb an apparent mandate of digital anthropology…
Exceptions and being human: Before and in times of Covid-19
As a much proclaimed ‘new normal’ accompanying the global pandemic, the suspension of certain rights to protect other rights returns our attention to notions of exceptions outside the law in terms of sovereign power and those hidden within the law, such as structurally embedded violations. The consent for the emergency rights accorded to the state to act for the greater protection and bio-survival of all occurs alongside certain contestations whi…
Extended Sites of Action
The forum in this issue, reflecting on the problematics of the relationship between anthropology and law, as a timely focus is also indicative of how these debates revolve around disciplinary and cross-disciplinary issues. That such co-presence of anthropology and law, incorporating research in informal and formal settings, various kinds of collaboration and, in some instances, sceptical views about its value, continues to merit close attention a…
Bringing into View
A new colleague in a recent email communication about this journal posed the question of whether the term ‘legal’ was being put in opposition to ‘illegal’: was there an illegal anthropology? My response must be left in part to the views of other likely interlocutors as to what is or can be evoked when we seemingly endeavour to attach or subdivide anthropology in envisaged specialist areas. The acknowledged spaces to bring out understandings of th…
Undoing resistance: East Indians beyond the culture-bound
This article draws on ethnographic data on Guyanese East Indians to re-examine a particular research framework of ‘culture-bound’ people positioned as needing to resist the other and, thus, it critiques a romanticised notion of resistance in relation to cultural imperialism. East Indians interact with an American soap opera, The Young and the Restless, which is positioned through lay discourses as hugely immoral and, at one level, seen as represe…
East Indians as Familiars and Partial Others in New York
This article provides accounts on Guyanese East Indians in New York to consider particular problems of migrant belonging. Prior to migration, these migrants did not generally understand America to be a site that would overemphasize their ethnic identities or position them as outsiders. In the Guyanese homeland, East Indians negotiate between distinctive and non-distinctive identities which allow them to be familiars beyond the group and to belong…
Gift Practices inGuyaneseEastIndian Diaspora: Belonging, Loss, and Status
La población Indo-Guyanesa en Guyana y New York, intercambia regalos como parte de una ideología del dar sin recibir, la cual, no obstante, se encuentra inmersa en las representaciones de status social. Esta noción india del regalo se está viendo desplazada por los cambios relacionados con la emigración de Guyana: el énfasis en el amor y el deber es cambiado por demostraciones de status más obvias y por la pérdida explícita de relaciones. Este ar…
A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses
In this article, I focus on residents in predominantly East Indian villages in Guyana to bring out their contextual identities in relation to places, houses, and television. In the status transactions that occur, landscapes of respect relations are formed: place is made “open” for residents to appear in partial contexts which confirm or challenge their respect notions. The houses mark the boundary between inside and outside where those who are vi…
Victims and agents un-made. Routinising the extraordinary1: Victims and Agents Un-Made
In this article, I examine a range of petty transactions in Guyana which also render the state visible in everyday practices. Various police and other officials intervene in domestic incidents and minor affrays where they are ‘topped up’ by ‘ordinary people’, as payments for them to be less powerful. They rely on a local ideal model of the state which constructs it in opposition to people. Both the particular officials and people use or contest t…
Anthropology through a double lens. Public and personal worlds in human theory by Linger, Daniel Touro: Reviews
Violence, Past and Present: Mati" and "Non-mati" People
The article explores violence as an entanglement of race, politics and belonging in Guyana. The author argues that where race as an object of violence has to be actively orchestrated against people who wish to live in peace, other factors can intersect to dangerously alter the balance of “co‐existence”. By co‐existence, the author refers to people’s management of complementary settings: a politically orchestrated race problem is seen as separate …
Ethnographic encounters. Positionings within and outside the insider frame
Callaloo nation: Metaphors of race and religious identity among South Asians in Trinidad - By Aisha Khan
Branding 'Perfection: Foreign as Self; Self as ‘Foreign-Foreign
This article examines notions of fake and real vis-a-vis East Indians' interactions with American brand names, which provide particular insights into how they define themselves in relation to the 'foreign'. It considers how this claiming of the foreign allows for a notion of personhood which relies on outward migration or how people imagine themselves as being somewhere else. Belonging has to be understood in relation to another place, the locus …
Ethnographic encounters. Positionings within and outside the insider frame
Cet article s'interesse aux enjeux de representation impliques par le positionnement de l'ethnographe. Il demontre la maniere dont s'opere le glissement des preoccupations initiales de l'anthropologue pour se faire reconnaitre sur son terrain vers les perspectives specifiques de ceux qu'il etudie et des informateurs qui participent a sa recherche. L'acquisition d'un savoir impliquant sa propre societe necessite que l'on tienne compte a la fois de…
Branding 'Perfection: Foreign as Self; Self as ‘Foreign-Foreign
This article examines notions of fake and real vis-a-vis East Indians' interactions with American brand names, which provide particular insights into how they define themselves in relation to the 'foreign'. It considers how this claiming of the foreign allows for a notion of personhood which relies on outward migration or how people imagine themselves as being somewhere else. Belonging has to be understood in relation to another place, the locus …
A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses
In this article, I focus on residents in predominantly East Indian villages in Guyana to bring out their contextual identities in relation to places, houses, and television. In the status transactions that occur, landscapes of respect relations are formed: place is made “open” for residents to appear in partial contexts which confirm or challenge their respect notions. The houses mark the boundary between inside and outside where those who are vi…
Violence, Past and Present: Mati" and "Non-mati" People
The article explores violence as an entanglement of race, politics and belonging in Guyana. The author argues that where race as an object of violence has to be actively orchestrated against people who wish to live in peace, other factors can intersect to dangerously alter the balance of “co‐existence”. By co‐existence, the author refers to people’s management of complementary settings: a politically orchestrated race problem is seen as separate …
Exceptions and being human: Before and in times of Covid-19
As a much proclaimed ‘new normal’ accompanying the global pandemic, the suspension of certain rights to protect other rights returns our attention to notions of exceptions outside the law in terms of sovereign power and those hidden within the law, such as structurally embedded violations. The consent for the emergency rights accorded to the state to act for the greater protection and bio-survival of all occurs alongside certain contestations whi…
East Indians as Familiars and Partial Others in New York
This article provides accounts on Guyanese East Indians in New York to consider particular problems of migrant belonging. Prior to migration, these migrants did not generally understand America to be a site that would overemphasize their ethnic identities or position them as outsiders. In the Guyanese homeland, East Indians negotiate between distinctive and non-distinctive identities which allow them to be familiars beyond the group and to belong…
Ethnographic encounters. Positionings within and outside the insider frame
Cet article s'interesse aux enjeux de representation impliques par le positionnement de l'ethnographe. Il demontre la maniere dont s'opere le glissement des preoccupations initiales de l'anthropologue pour se faire reconnaitre sur son terrain vers les perspectives specifiques de ceux qu'il etudie et des informateurs qui participent a sa recherche. L'acquisition d'un savoir impliquant sa propre societe necessite que l'on tienne compte a la fois de…
Branding 'Perfection: Foreign as Self; Self as ‘Foreign-Foreign
This article examines notions of fake and real vis-a-vis East Indians' interactions with American brand names, which provide particular insights into how they define themselves in relation to the 'foreign'. It considers how this claiming of the foreign allows for a notion of personhood which relies on outward migration or how people imagine themselves as being somewhere else. Belonging has to be understood in relation to another place, the locus …
Ethnographic encounters. Positionings within and outside the insider frame
Callaloo nation: Metaphors of race and religious identity among South Asians in Trinidad - By Aisha Khan
Victims and agents un-made. Routinising the extraordinary1: Victims and Agents Un-Made
In this article, I examine a range of petty transactions in Guyana which also render the state visible in everyday practices. Various police and other officials intervene in domestic incidents and minor affrays where they are ‘topped up’ by ‘ordinary people’, as payments for them to be less powerful. They rely on a local ideal model of the state which constructs it in opposition to people. Both the particular officials and people use or contest t…
Anthropology through a double lens. Public and personal worlds in human theory by Linger, Daniel Touro: Reviews
Violence, Past and Present: Mati" and "Non-mati" People
The article explores violence as an entanglement of race, politics and belonging in Guyana. The author argues that where race as an object of violence has to be actively orchestrated against people who wish to live in peace, other factors can intersect to dangerously alter the balance of “co‐existence”. By co‐existence, the author refers to people’s management of complementary settings: a politically orchestrated race problem is seen as separate …
A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses
In this article, I focus on residents in predominantly East Indian villages in Guyana to bring out their contextual identities in relation to places, houses, and television. In the status transactions that occur, landscapes of respect relations are formed: place is made “open” for residents to appear in partial contexts which confirm or challenge their respect notions. The houses mark the boundary between inside and outside where those who are vi…
Gift Practices inGuyaneseEastIndian Diaspora: Belonging, Loss, and Status
La población Indo-Guyanesa en Guyana y New York, intercambia regalos como parte de una ideología del dar sin recibir, la cual, no obstante, se encuentra inmersa en las representaciones de status social. Esta noción india del regalo se está viendo desplazada por los cambios relacionados con la emigración de Guyana: el énfasis en el amor y el deber es cambiado por demostraciones de status más obvias y por la pérdida explícita de relaciones. Este ar…
Undoing resistance: East Indians beyond the culture-bound
This article draws on ethnographic data on Guyanese East Indians to re-examine a particular research framework of ‘culture-bound’ people positioned as needing to resist the other and, thus, it critiques a romanticised notion of resistance in relation to cultural imperialism. East Indians interact with an American soap opera, The Young and the Restless, which is positioned through lay discourses as hugely immoral and, at one level, seen as represe…
East Indians as Familiars and Partial Others in New York
This article provides accounts on Guyanese East Indians in New York to consider particular problems of migrant belonging. Prior to migration, these migrants did not generally understand America to be a site that would overemphasize their ethnic identities or position them as outsiders. In the Guyanese homeland, East Indians negotiate between distinctive and non-distinctive identities which allow them to be familiars beyond the group and to belong…
Extended Sites of Action
The forum in this issue, reflecting on the problematics of the relationship between anthropology and law, as a timely focus is also indicative of how these debates revolve around disciplinary and cross-disciplinary issues. That such co-presence of anthropology and law, incorporating research in informal and formal settings, various kinds of collaboration and, in some instances, sceptical views about its value, continues to merit close attention a…
Bringing into View
A new colleague in a recent email communication about this journal posed the question of whether the term ‘legal’ was being put in opposition to ‘illegal’: was there an illegal anthropology? My response must be left in part to the views of other likely interlocutors as to what is or can be evoked when we seemingly endeavour to attach or subdivide anthropology in envisaged specialist areas. The acknowledged spaces to bring out understandings of th…
Exceptions and being human: Before and in times of Covid-19
As a much proclaimed ‘new normal’ accompanying the global pandemic, the suspension of certain rights to protect other rights returns our attention to notions of exceptions outside the law in terms of sovereign power and those hidden within the law, such as structurally embedded violations. The consent for the emergency rights accorded to the state to act for the greater protection and bio-survival of all occurs alongside certain contestations whi…
Digital and Offline: Partial Fields and Knowledge Producers
Partial processes of knowledge making, online and offline, demonstrate modes of experiential newness. Indicative of the 'shocks' and joined curations of field encounters, such experiences re-engage anthropological debatesas being of the present. The extended field suggests vast change and unlimited spaces to engage participants and 'invite' new unrelatable publics. The reflections and encounters disturb an apparent mandate of digital anthropology…
Do No Harm: From Which (Or Whose) Sides Must We Speak
The issue of harm in certain contexts and settings at some very fraught moments appears overly connected to anthropology: an idea of the discipline is made as the problem in a focus that can overshadow the actions of individuals and or institutional practices. This includes claims for anthropological harm that conflate the actions of particular individuals with the discipline. Alongside the potential harm in blaming anthropology, indiscriminately…
Sociology (14 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Law (6 works)