Fenella Cannell
Biographic Data
| ID | 147278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fenella Cannell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fenella |
| FAMILY NAME | Cannell |
| SIGNATURE | CANNELL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 522 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cathedrals in the Blood: Anglican Places and Protestant Kinships
This article addresses a long-standing blind spot in anthropology, arguing that Western Protestant kinships have been overlooked in literature on both Christianity and English kinship. It is suggested that the recent and surprising popularity of Anglican cathedral visiting in England can be illuminated by exploring the multiple ways in which cathedrals offer emplaced relational resources for overlapping constituencies of people who use these site…
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic: Insights from a rapid qualitative study
Dealing with excess death in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the question of a ‘good or bad death’ into sharp relief as countries across the globe have grappled with multiple peaks of cases and mortality; and communities mourn those lost. In the UK, these challenges have included the fact that mortality has adversely affected minority communities. Corpse disposal and social distancing guidelines do not allow a process of mourning …
Time Shared
Four… Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Immaterial Culture: "Idolatry" In The Lowland Philippines
Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West
The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality andAmerican idioms of kinship
For Latter-day Saints, blood is one important idiom of kinship, and ofChristian worship, but not in the ways one might expect. This paper asks how the logic of the resurrected and 'perfected' body inhabits both registers, beginning with the surprisingly 'bloodless'LDSSacrament Service. I then explore the paths by which Latter-day Saints navigate meanings of blood kinship in tension, especially attribution to the 'Abrahamic lineages'. I argue, in …
English ancestors: The moral possibilities of popular genealogy
This article considers the meanings of ordinary genealogy for English practitioners in East Anglia, and in the popular BBC television series Who do you think you are? It argues against the view, most forcibly expressed by Segalen, that genealogy is a 'narcissistic' pursuit which compensates for individual or collective deracination in modernity. Contra Schneider, it draws attention to family history as a form of care for the dead, and a moral ter…
Portrait: Maurice Bloch
Th e refl ections presented here demonstrate the coherence and continuity of the part of my work that can be labeled as dealing with religion and ritual. Th is of course does not mean that everything I have written on the subject is coherent and continuous. Indeed as time has passed I have learned many things from my readings and experiences, from interacting with colleagues and friends, and from working with others, including the people I have s…
The Anthropology of Secularism
Recent debates on this topic have been heavily shaped by two paradigms: Asad's deconstructivism and Taylor's Catholic/Hegelian revisionism. This article outlines the arguments of each but frames them within the longer history of arguments that make claims for the reality of secularization and alternate sources for claims that "the secular" is a historically constructed category, including arguments from radical theology and (differently) in the a…
The promise of the foreign: Nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines - By Vincente L. Rafael
Desert patriarchy; Mormon and Mennonite communities in the Chihuahua Valley - By Janet Bennion
The Anthropology of Christianity
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…
Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Duke University Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher specializing in books, journals, open access, and other digital publishing initiatives in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Our mission is to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute to the international community of scholarship.
The Anthropology of Christianity
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…
Investing in miracles: El Shaddai and the transformation of popular Catholicism in the Philippines - Katherine L. Wiegele
The Christianity of Anthropology
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the 'secular' social sciences to have severed themselves entirely from their Christian theological underpinnings. The article is in conversation with other writers on related themes, including Jonathan Parry on Mauss'sThe gift, Talal Asad, J…
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
The Imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines
This article considers the way in which the local practice of Catholicism in Bicol, centred here on a miraculous image of a 'dead Christ', is linked to the healing of spirit-caused sickness. I argue that the relationship of people in S. Ignacio to their saint is one of identification, in which ritual and daily life echo each other, and devotional acts often take the form of 'imitations' of Christ which create intimacy with him and access power in…
Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jean-Paul Dumont
Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science . Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth, Eds
Anthropological Perspectives on Assisted Conception
mainstream anthropological literature, or at least 'seen but not heard', children may now be recognized as a source for demonstrating one of anthropology's great strengths its refusal to be silent about those things that people cannot speak about. O. Jonathan Benthall SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE Sunday 5 January Stephen Chanock (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda) presented I Need a Friend: Kids Talk about the AIDS Virus, a video made by the Natio…
Concepts of parenthood: The Warnock Report, the Gillick debate, and modern myths
This article examines the notion of the family in the United Kingdom as a "contested domain" during a period of public reformulation of kinship ideas. In public discourse, threats to the family from two sources were perceived: new technologies of reproduction had led to the possibility of reproduction without sex; contraception prescription practices had evoked for some an image of disorderly sex without reproduction. Moving beyond simple contras…
The Politics of Motherhood in the 1980s: Warnock, Gillick and Feminists
Both the Warnock and Gillick debates are about sex and reproduction artificial reproduction in the first case and contraception for under 16 year olds in the second but there seems to be little more by way of close connection than that. The most controversial aspect of the Warnock reportI proved to be the issue of embryo research, while the Gillick debate centred on doctors' right to prescribe for under sixteen year olds without parental consent.…
The Anthropology of Christianity
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…
The Christianity of Anthropology
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the 'secular' social sciences to have severed themselves entirely from their Christian theological underpinnings. The article is in conversation with other writers on related themes, including Jonathan Parry on Mauss'sThe gift, Talal Asad, J…
The Anthropology of Secularism
Recent debates on this topic have been heavily shaped by two paradigms: Asad's deconstructivism and Taylor's Catholic/Hegelian revisionism. This article outlines the arguments of each but frames them within the longer history of arguments that make claims for the reality of secularization and alternate sources for claims that "the secular" is a historically constructed category, including arguments from radical theology and (differently) in the a…
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Concepts of parenthood: The Warnock Report, the Gillick debate, and modern myths
This article examines the notion of the family in the United Kingdom as a "contested domain" during a period of public reformulation of kinship ideas. In public discourse, threats to the family from two sources were perceived: new technologies of reproduction had led to the possibility of reproduction without sex; contraception prescription practices had evoked for some an image of disorderly sex without reproduction. Moving beyond simple contras…
English ancestors: The moral possibilities of popular genealogy
This article considers the meanings of ordinary genealogy for English practitioners in East Anglia, and in the popular BBC television series Who do you think you are? It argues against the view, most forcibly expressed by Segalen, that genealogy is a 'narcissistic' pursuit which compensates for individual or collective deracination in modernity. Contra Schneider, it draws attention to family history as a form of care for the dead, and a moral ter…
The Imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines
This article considers the way in which the local practice of Catholicism in Bicol, centred here on a miraculous image of a 'dead Christ', is linked to the healing of spirit-caused sickness. I argue that the relationship of people in S. Ignacio to their saint is one of identification, in which ritual and daily life echo each other, and devotional acts often take the form of 'imitations' of Christ which create intimacy with him and access power in…
The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality andAmerican idioms of kinship
For Latter-day Saints, blood is one important idiom of kinship, and ofChristian worship, but not in the ways one might expect. This paper asks how the logic of the resurrected and 'perfected' body inhabits both registers, beginning with the surprisingly 'bloodless'LDSSacrament Service. I then explore the paths by which Latter-day Saints navigate meanings of blood kinship in tension, especially attribution to the 'Abrahamic lineages'. I argue, in …
The Politics of Motherhood in the 1980s: Warnock, Gillick and Feminists
Both the Warnock and Gillick debates are about sex and reproduction artificial reproduction in the first case and contraception for under 16 year olds in the second but there seems to be little more by way of close connection than that. The most controversial aspect of the Warnock reportI proved to be the issue of embryo research, while the Gillick debate centred on doctors' right to prescribe for under sixteen year olds without parental consent.…
Portrait: Maurice Bloch
Th e refl ections presented here demonstrate the coherence and continuity of the part of my work that can be labeled as dealing with religion and ritual. Th is of course does not mean that everything I have written on the subject is coherent and continuous. Indeed as time has passed I have learned many things from my readings and experiences, from interacting with colleagues and friends, and from working with others, including the people I have s…
The Politics of Motherhood in the 1980s: Warnock, Gillick and Feminists
Both the Warnock and Gillick debates are about sex and reproduction artificial reproduction in the first case and contraception for under 16 year olds in the second but there seems to be little more by way of close connection than that. The most controversial aspect of the Warnock reportI proved to be the issue of embryo research, while the Gillick debate centred on doctors' right to prescribe for under sixteen year olds without parental consent.…
Concepts of parenthood: The Warnock Report, the Gillick debate, and modern myths
This article examines the notion of the family in the United Kingdom as a "contested domain" during a period of public reformulation of kinship ideas. In public discourse, threats to the family from two sources were perceived: new technologies of reproduction had led to the possibility of reproduction without sex; contraception prescription practices had evoked for some an image of disorderly sex without reproduction. Moving beyond simple contras…
Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science . Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth, Eds
Anthropological Perspectives on Assisted Conception
mainstream anthropological literature, or at least 'seen but not heard', children may now be recognized as a source for demonstrating one of anthropology's great strengths its refusal to be silent about those things that people cannot speak about. O. Jonathan Benthall SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE Sunday 5 January Stephen Chanock (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda) presented I Need a Friend: Kids Talk about the AIDS Virus, a video made by the Natio…
Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jean-Paul Dumont
The Imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines
This article considers the way in which the local practice of Catholicism in Bicol, centred here on a miraculous image of a 'dead Christ', is linked to the healing of spirit-caused sickness. I argue that the relationship of people in S. Ignacio to their saint is one of identification, in which ritual and daily life echo each other, and devotional acts often take the form of 'imitations' of Christ which create intimacy with him and access power in…
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
The Christianity of Anthropology
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the 'secular' social sciences to have severed themselves entirely from their Christian theological underpinnings. The article is in conversation with other writers on related themes, including Jonathan Parry on Mauss'sThe gift, Talal Asad, J…
The Anthropology of Christianity
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…
Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Duke University Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher specializing in books, journals, open access, and other digital publishing initiatives in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Our mission is to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute to the international community of scholarship.
The Anthropology of Christianity
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…
Investing in miracles: El Shaddai and the transformation of popular Catholicism in the Philippines - Katherine L. Wiegele
The promise of the foreign: Nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines - By Vincente L. Rafael
Desert patriarchy; Mormon and Mennonite communities in the Chihuahua Valley - By Janet Bennion
Portrait: Maurice Bloch
Th e refl ections presented here demonstrate the coherence and continuity of the part of my work that can be labeled as dealing with religion and ritual. Th is of course does not mean that everything I have written on the subject is coherent and continuous. Indeed as time has passed I have learned many things from my readings and experiences, from interacting with colleagues and friends, and from working with others, including the people I have s…
The Anthropology of Secularism
Recent debates on this topic have been heavily shaped by two paradigms: Asad's deconstructivism and Taylor's Catholic/Hegelian revisionism. This article outlines the arguments of each but frames them within the longer history of arguments that make claims for the reality of secularization and alternate sources for claims that "the secular" is a historically constructed category, including arguments from radical theology and (differently) in the a…
English ancestors: The moral possibilities of popular genealogy
This article considers the meanings of ordinary genealogy for English practitioners in East Anglia, and in the popular BBC television series Who do you think you are? It argues against the view, most forcibly expressed by Segalen, that genealogy is a 'narcissistic' pursuit which compensates for individual or collective deracination in modernity. Contra Schneider, it draws attention to family history as a form of care for the dead, and a moral ter…
Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West
The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality andAmerican idioms of kinship
For Latter-day Saints, blood is one important idiom of kinship, and ofChristian worship, but not in the ways one might expect. This paper asks how the logic of the resurrected and 'perfected' body inhabits both registers, beginning with the surprisingly 'bloodless'LDSSacrament Service. I then explore the paths by which Latter-day Saints navigate meanings of blood kinship in tension, especially attribution to the 'Abrahamic lineages'. I argue, in …
Immaterial Culture: "Idolatry" In The Lowland Philippines
Four… Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic: Insights from a rapid qualitative study
Dealing with excess death in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the question of a ‘good or bad death’ into sharp relief as countries across the globe have grappled with multiple peaks of cases and mortality; and communities mourn those lost. In the UK, these challenges have included the fact that mortality has adversely affected minority communities. Corpse disposal and social distancing guidelines do not allow a process of mourning …
Time Shared
Cathedrals in the Blood: Anglican Places and Protestant Kinships
This article addresses a long-standing blind spot in anthropology, arguing that Western Protestant kinships have been overlooked in literature on both Christianity and English kinship. It is suggested that the recent and surprising popularity of Anglican cathedral visiting in England can be illuminated by exploring the multiple ways in which cathedrals offer emplaced relational resources for overlapping constituencies of people who use these site…
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