Giovanni Da Col
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Da Col |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Col |
| SIGNATURE | DA COL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cumulus
This special issue is the result of a workshop organised by the two co-editors and held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London and St John’s College in Cambridge, on 28-30 June 2017. The workshop carried the same name as this collection : Cumulus. Hoarding, Hosting, Hospitality. Our aim was to explore further the limits and usefulness of the concept of hospitality, which had in recent years become a voguish keyword in anth…
The H-Factor of Anthropology
The recent exposure of hospitality in the public forum in relation to the 2015 refugee crisis has forced anthropology to return to hospitality, albeit from the disciplinary center.Now more than ever it is clear we must go further in the effort to de-localize and re-localize anthropology from its colonial heritage, and raise new questions for developing a nuanced ethnographic theory of hospitality.Why are certain parts of the world imagined as sit…
New publishing demands new magic
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Beginnings
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorial NoteBeginningsGiovanni da ColGiovanni da Col Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOriginal minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.—Friedrich …
Translation
Why do we read the classics
Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in terms of the complex relation between the production of anthropological knowledge and the political systems in which it takes place, or the proliferation of the language of "mutual constitution" as a way to bypass questions of causality, the question of the "suffering" vs. the "g…
Free gifts that must be invented
Previous articleNext article FreeFree gifts that must be inventedGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreImagine if someone wanted to write the Anti-Mauss. Whereas Deleuze and Guattari wrote the Anti-Oedipus ([1972]…
Of rants, shortcuts, and revolutions
Next article FreeOf rants, shortcuts, and revolutionsGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThree years ago, I was riding a vaporetto, crossing the Giudecca canal that flows into the San Marco basin in Veni…
Two or three things I know about Ethnographic Theory
In the introduction to this collection, I aim to outline the debate sparked by Tim Ingold (2014) on the relation between ethnography and theory. I outline a few methodological principles that ground the idea of "ethnographic theory" by distinguishing it from some cognate approaches, including the so-called "ontological turn" and Ingold's idea of correspondence. Rather than pursuing an isomorphism between thing and concept, between happenstances a…
Spirits of Uncertainty
Studies of the environmental spirit world have been pursuing two main lines of inquiry: (1) that indigenous claims on ecological thought, including beliefs in chthonic spirits and mountain deities, are the outcome of a global process of abstraction and the commoditisation of nature which acts as technology of governmentality for the production of discursive formations through which neoliberal environmental subjectivities can emerge and (2) that t…
Anthropology pays itself with the suspended coffee of its dreams
If luxury could be associated with the peacock, for example, then the totemic animal associated with super-luxury could be most likely the beaver-the great architect hunted for his medicinal glands and perfumatory secretions. A totemic difference between the two animals may be found in the ephemerality of the catwalk allure vs. the durability and captivating dimension of the craft-trap, to say it with Gell (1996). Fashion-wise, the beavers may be…
Gifts by stealth and silent trades
Next article FreeGifts by stealth and silent tradesGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year, from December 13 to January 6, my little daughter has three cosmoeconomic encounters: Santa Lucia, Santa …
Tsundoku
Next article FreeTsundokuGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS and University of Cambridge Search for more articles by this author SOAS and University of CambridgePDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn Lost in translation: An illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world (2014), Ella Frances Sanders intro…
Why an open access publishing cooperative can work
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association¿s publishing program (see Schmid 2015). The new contract would begin January 1, 2018 and likely run for the next ten years. Because the AAA is the world¿s largest publisher of anthropology titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), th…
Incomplete regularities
And now we bring you a Hau special section edited by André Iteanu and Ismaël Moya that showcases the continued value of such radical ethnographic fraying. The articles illuminate not only individual societies via projects of comparison predominant in recent anthropological theory, but also by juxtaposing Dumont to the theoretical strategies of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Marilyn Strathern. With contributions by rising and established scholars …
The year of the weasel
Next article FreeThe year of the weaselGiovanni DA COLGiovanni DA COLUniversity of Oslo Search for more articles by this author University of OsloPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWeasel word: "intentionally evasive or misleading speech; equivocation"- Collins English DictionaryAt times, one encounters ethnographies recoun…
Turns and returns
Next article FreeTurns and returnsGIOVANNI DA COLGIOVANNI DA COL Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore[H]e wanted the barman to replenish his rum-glass. Crump came from behind the bar, seventyish, in a waiter's white jacket. . . . "Yes, General," he said. "Similar, sir? Very good, sir."…
Father Christmas rejuvenated
Next article FreeFather Christmas rejuvenatedGiovanni DA COL, Sean M. DOWDY, and Stéphane GROSGiovanni DA COL Search for more articles by this author , Sean M. DOWDY Search for more articles by this author , and Stéphane GROS Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe should reflect on the…
The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life
This article presents some images and conceptual structures surrounding notions of fortune and luck among Dechen Tibetans in southwest China and reflects on the strategies for negotiating the integrity of persons and other 'social containers'. First, it analyzes the problem in separating the multifarious manifestations of fortune connected to the well-being and vitality of persons and households. Secondly, it examines the ethnographic concepts ar…
Subjects of Luck
This introduction illustrates the modalities in which different societies imagine the tension between the impersonal and individualized aspects of fortune and fate. After briefly discussing the role of contingency, fortune, and gambling in the formation of subjectivities, we outline how different societies confront the moral conundrums arising from fortune's unequal distribution in the world. We highlight how luck orientations presentify the futu…
Natural Philosophies of Fortune
Despite the resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in concepts of fortune, luck, and chance, anthropology has failed to engage with the social imagination of these concepts and their incorporation into quotidian moralities and decisions. This essay, which introduces the first of two special issues on this topic, will first present different conceptions and uses of notions of luck and chance and their relation with moral ontologies and notions o…
The poisoner and the parasite
Since the early twentieth century, travellers and explorers of the Tibetan-speaking world have reported a host of beliefs concerning the existence of households of mysterious poisoners allegedly killing their guests and visitors. Hitherto, no one has explained the phenomenon. This paper examines the role of poisons in Tibetans' social life and imagination by exploring the interface between cosmology, the economies of fortune, and hospitality in N…
The return to hospitality
Anthropology has been largely absent from the recent explosion of interdisciplinary enthusiasm with hospitality across philosophy, political science, and cultural studies. Yet anthropology's living engagement with hospitality has been far deeper than that of any other discipline. This essay, which introduces the volume, aims to revitalize hospitality as a frontier area of theoretical development in anthropology by highlighting the topic's connect…
The View from Somewhen
This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Tibetan cosmology, comparing it to Amerindian models. While both traditions acknowledge a shared consciousness between humans and non-humans, Tibetan cosmology introduces a 'field of fortune' that determines corporeal differences and perspectival access. This field acts as a form of 'clothing,' enabling cosmological mobility and the adoption of non-human perspectives without requiring shamanic…
The return to hospitality
Anthropology has been largely absent from the recent explosion of interdisciplinary enthusiasm with hospitality across philosophy, political science, and cultural studies. Yet anthropology's living engagement with hospitality has been far deeper than that of any other discipline. This essay, which introduces the volume, aims to revitalize hospitality as a frontier area of theoretical development in anthropology by highlighting the topic's connect…
The poisoner and the parasite
Since the early twentieth century, travellers and explorers of the Tibetan-speaking world have reported a host of beliefs concerning the existence of households of mysterious poisoners allegedly killing their guests and visitors. Hitherto, no one has explained the phenomenon. This paper examines the role of poisons in Tibetans' social life and imagination by exploring the interface between cosmology, the economies of fortune, and hospitality in N…
Natural Philosophies of Fortune
Despite the resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in concepts of fortune, luck, and chance, anthropology has failed to engage with the social imagination of these concepts and their incorporation into quotidian moralities and decisions. This essay, which introduces the first of two special issues on this topic, will first present different conceptions and uses of notions of luck and chance and their relation with moral ontologies and notions o…
The View from Somewhen
This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Tibetan cosmology, comparing it to Amerindian models. While both traditions acknowledge a shared consciousness between humans and non-humans, Tibetan cosmology introduces a 'field of fortune' that determines corporeal differences and perspectival access. This field acts as a form of 'clothing,' enabling cosmological mobility and the adoption of non-human perspectives without requiring shamanic…
Two or three things I know about Ethnographic Theory
In the introduction to this collection, I aim to outline the debate sparked by Tim Ingold (2014) on the relation between ethnography and theory. I outline a few methodological principles that ground the idea of "ethnographic theory" by distinguishing it from some cognate approaches, including the so-called "ontological turn" and Ingold's idea of correspondence. Rather than pursuing an isomorphism between thing and concept, between happenstances a…
Why do we read the classics
Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in terms of the complex relation between the production of anthropological knowledge and the political systems in which it takes place, or the proliferation of the language of "mutual constitution" as a way to bypass questions of causality, the question of the "suffering" vs. the "g…
The H-Factor of Anthropology
The recent exposure of hospitality in the public forum in relation to the 2015 refugee crisis has forced anthropology to return to hospitality, albeit from the disciplinary center.Now more than ever it is clear we must go further in the effort to de-localize and re-localize anthropology from its colonial heritage, and raise new questions for developing a nuanced ethnographic theory of hospitality.Why are certain parts of the world imagined as sit…
Spirits of Uncertainty
Studies of the environmental spirit world have been pursuing two main lines of inquiry: (1) that indigenous claims on ecological thought, including beliefs in chthonic spirits and mountain deities, are the outcome of a global process of abstraction and the commoditisation of nature which acts as technology of governmentality for the production of discursive formations through which neoliberal environmental subjectivities can emerge and (2) that t…
Anthropology pays itself with the suspended coffee of its dreams
If luxury could be associated with the peacock, for example, then the totemic animal associated with super-luxury could be most likely the beaver-the great architect hunted for his medicinal glands and perfumatory secretions. A totemic difference between the two animals may be found in the ephemerality of the catwalk allure vs. the durability and captivating dimension of the craft-trap, to say it with Gell (1996). Fashion-wise, the beavers may be…
Gifts by stealth and silent trades
Next article FreeGifts by stealth and silent tradesGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year, from December 13 to January 6, my little daughter has three cosmoeconomic encounters: Santa Lucia, Santa …
Why an open access publishing cooperative can work
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association¿s publishing program (see Schmid 2015). The new contract would begin January 1, 2018 and likely run for the next ten years. Because the AAA is the world¿s largest publisher of anthropology titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), th…
Turns and returns
Next article FreeTurns and returnsGIOVANNI DA COLGIOVANNI DA COL Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore[H]e wanted the barman to replenish his rum-glass. Crump came from behind the bar, seventyish, in a waiter's white jacket. . . . "Yes, General," he said. "Similar, sir? Very good, sir."…
Father Christmas rejuvenated
Next article FreeFather Christmas rejuvenatedGiovanni DA COL, Sean M. DOWDY, and Stéphane GROSGiovanni DA COL Search for more articles by this author , Sean M. DOWDY Search for more articles by this author , and Stéphane GROS Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe should reflect on the…
The View from Somewhen
This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Tibetan cosmology, comparing it to Amerindian models. While both traditions acknowledge a shared consciousness between humans and non-humans, Tibetan cosmology introduces a 'field of fortune' that determines corporeal differences and perspectival access. This field acts as a form of 'clothing,' enabling cosmological mobility and the adoption of non-human perspectives without requiring shamanic…
The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life
This article presents some images and conceptual structures surrounding notions of fortune and luck among Dechen Tibetans in southwest China and reflects on the strategies for negotiating the integrity of persons and other 'social containers'. First, it analyzes the problem in separating the multifarious manifestations of fortune connected to the well-being and vitality of persons and households. Secondly, it examines the ethnographic concepts ar…
Subjects of Luck
This introduction illustrates the modalities in which different societies imagine the tension between the impersonal and individualized aspects of fortune and fate. After briefly discussing the role of contingency, fortune, and gambling in the formation of subjectivities, we outline how different societies confront the moral conundrums arising from fortune's unequal distribution in the world. We highlight how luck orientations presentify the futu…
Natural Philosophies of Fortune
Despite the resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in concepts of fortune, luck, and chance, anthropology has failed to engage with the social imagination of these concepts and their incorporation into quotidian moralities and decisions. This essay, which introduces the first of two special issues on this topic, will first present different conceptions and uses of notions of luck and chance and their relation with moral ontologies and notions o…
The poisoner and the parasite
Since the early twentieth century, travellers and explorers of the Tibetan-speaking world have reported a host of beliefs concerning the existence of households of mysterious poisoners allegedly killing their guests and visitors. Hitherto, no one has explained the phenomenon. This paper examines the role of poisons in Tibetans' social life and imagination by exploring the interface between cosmology, the economies of fortune, and hospitality in N…
The return to hospitality
Anthropology has been largely absent from the recent explosion of interdisciplinary enthusiasm with hospitality across philosophy, political science, and cultural studies. Yet anthropology's living engagement with hospitality has been far deeper than that of any other discipline. This essay, which introduces the volume, aims to revitalize hospitality as a frontier area of theoretical development in anthropology by highlighting the topic's connect…
Father Christmas rejuvenated
Next article FreeFather Christmas rejuvenatedGiovanni DA COL, Sean M. DOWDY, and Stéphane GROSGiovanni DA COL Search for more articles by this author , Sean M. DOWDY Search for more articles by this author , and Stéphane GROS Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe should reflect on the…
The year of the weasel
Next article FreeThe year of the weaselGiovanni DA COLGiovanni DA COLUniversity of Oslo Search for more articles by this author University of OsloPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWeasel word: "intentionally evasive or misleading speech; equivocation"- Collins English DictionaryAt times, one encounters ethnographies recoun…
Turns and returns
Next article FreeTurns and returnsGIOVANNI DA COLGIOVANNI DA COL Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore[H]e wanted the barman to replenish his rum-glass. Crump came from behind the bar, seventyish, in a waiter's white jacket. . . . "Yes, General," he said. "Similar, sir? Very good, sir."…
Gifts by stealth and silent trades
Next article FreeGifts by stealth and silent tradesGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year, from December 13 to January 6, my little daughter has three cosmoeconomic encounters: Santa Lucia, Santa …
Tsundoku
Next article FreeTsundokuGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS and University of Cambridge Search for more articles by this author SOAS and University of CambridgePDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn Lost in translation: An illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world (2014), Ella Frances Sanders intro…
Why an open access publishing cooperative can work
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association¿s publishing program (see Schmid 2015). The new contract would begin January 1, 2018 and likely run for the next ten years. Because the AAA is the world¿s largest publisher of anthropology titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), th…
Incomplete regularities
And now we bring you a Hau special section edited by André Iteanu and Ismaël Moya that showcases the continued value of such radical ethnographic fraying. The articles illuminate not only individual societies via projects of comparison predominant in recent anthropological theory, but also by juxtaposing Dumont to the theoretical strategies of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Marilyn Strathern. With contributions by rising and established scholars …
Anthropology pays itself with the suspended coffee of its dreams
If luxury could be associated with the peacock, for example, then the totemic animal associated with super-luxury could be most likely the beaver-the great architect hunted for his medicinal glands and perfumatory secretions. A totemic difference between the two animals may be found in the ephemerality of the catwalk allure vs. the durability and captivating dimension of the craft-trap, to say it with Gell (1996). Fashion-wise, the beavers may be…
Why do we read the classics
Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in terms of the complex relation between the production of anthropological knowledge and the political systems in which it takes place, or the proliferation of the language of "mutual constitution" as a way to bypass questions of causality, the question of the "suffering" vs. the "g…
Free gifts that must be invented
Previous articleNext article FreeFree gifts that must be inventedGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreImagine if someone wanted to write the Anti-Mauss. Whereas Deleuze and Guattari wrote the Anti-Oedipus ([1972]…
Of rants, shortcuts, and revolutions
Next article FreeOf rants, shortcuts, and revolutionsGiovanni da ColGiovanni da ColSOAS, University of London Search for more articles by this author SOAS, University of LondonPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThree years ago, I was riding a vaporetto, crossing the Giudecca canal that flows into the San Marco basin in Veni…
Two or three things I know about Ethnographic Theory
In the introduction to this collection, I aim to outline the debate sparked by Tim Ingold (2014) on the relation between ethnography and theory. I outline a few methodological principles that ground the idea of "ethnographic theory" by distinguishing it from some cognate approaches, including the so-called "ontological turn" and Ingold's idea of correspondence. Rather than pursuing an isomorphism between thing and concept, between happenstances a…
Spirits of Uncertainty
Studies of the environmental spirit world have been pursuing two main lines of inquiry: (1) that indigenous claims on ecological thought, including beliefs in chthonic spirits and mountain deities, are the outcome of a global process of abstraction and the commoditisation of nature which acts as technology of governmentality for the production of discursive formations through which neoliberal environmental subjectivities can emerge and (2) that t…
Beginnings
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorial NoteBeginningsGiovanni da ColGiovanni da Col Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreOriginal minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.—Friedrich …
Translation
Cumulus
This special issue is the result of a workshop organised by the two co-editors and held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London and St John’s College in Cambridge, on 28-30 June 2017. The workshop carried the same name as this collection : Cumulus. Hoarding, Hosting, Hospitality. Our aim was to explore further the limits and usefulness of the concept of hospitality, which had in recent years become a voguish keyword in anth…
The H-Factor of Anthropology
The recent exposure of hospitality in the public forum in relation to the 2015 refugee crisis has forced anthropology to return to hospitality, albeit from the disciplinary center.Now more than ever it is clear we must go further in the effort to de-localize and re-localize anthropology from its colonial heritage, and raise new questions for developing a nuanced ethnographic theory of hospitality.Why are certain parts of the world imagined as sit…
New publishing demands new magic
First citation in articleGoogle Scholar
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