H Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 43056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9879-4045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Aprendiendo a poner gusto o sobre una gastropolítica urarina
El artículo analiza cómo la comida se ha convertido en un eje central para comprender las transformaciones morales, corporales y políticas entre los urarina de la Amazonía peruana. La introducción de alimentos industrializados —especialmente los condimentos—, impulsada por escuelas, programas estatales, ONG y comerciantes, genera desconfianza corporal y tensiones éticas, al tiempo que habilita nuevas formas de convivencia. Las prácticas de gastro…
In defense of the heart: An Amazonian politics of respect
The concept of defense-respect is elaborated here as a cornerstone of Urarina ethics and politics and an alternative to the concept of respect inherited from the Kantian tradition. While similarly expressing a kind of liberal and egalitarian ethos, it is founded on very different premises, for the worth of an individual has little to do with their inherent dignity or membership in a common humanity, and emerges instead from concrete, practical kn…
How People Compare
This opening chapter starts with the observation that at its core, comparison is about establishing a relationship between two or more ‘things’ to thereby bring into view differences and similarities. Such acts of comparison are essential for people to make sense of and orient themselves in the world, while at the same time they will be affected (and constrained) by the comparative work of others. The chapter argues that the cross-cultural study …
Three Questions About the Social Life of Values
This afterword to the Qualifying Sociality through Values special issue reflects on the challenge, aptly considered by each contributor, to revamp and rejuvenate the sociality concept in light of the ethical turn. It poses three questions. Firstly, just how important are values for sociality? That is, to what extent is social action really conceived and executed through values? Secondly, how does sociality itself figure as a value, and how should…
Equality without equivalence: An Anthropology of the Common★
This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people. This kind of singularism, or 'individualism without individuals', results from an orientation to the common as …
Dislocating responsibility
Puccio-Den's reflections on mafiacraft are an insightful contribution to the broader project of tracing societal changes in the nature of personal responsibility and how this is contested and dislocated. The way in which individual mafiosi are impelled to act might also say something about the nature of responsibility everywhere, as intrinsically indeterminate and a consequence less of freedom than of susceptibility to the address of others
On logophagy and truth: Interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina
This paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in…
Thomas Gibson and Kenneth Sillander,Anarchic solidarity: Autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia
This tight-knit volume represents an impressive contribution to our understanding of the distinctively fluid, intimate, inclusive sociality and associated values of personal autonomy that are chara
Documents as Displaced Voice: Writing among Amazonian Urarina
Aunque los niveles de alfabetización sean aún bajos en la Amazonía, los Urarina del Perú emplean documentos con frecuencia y entusiasmo. Este artículo explora el uso y apropiación de documentos escritos en relación a ideologías locales del lenguaje y del poder, focalizándose en sus cualidades performativas, es decir, en lo que los documentos 'hacen'. A pesar de que el uso de documentos escritos cumple un rol importante conectando la población al …
Paper, Power, and Procedure: Reflections on Amazonian Appropriations of Bureaucracy and Documents
The creative and ever-expanding appropriations of bureaucracy and documents on the part of Amazonian peoples today transcend simple dichotomies between orality and literacy, state and non-state power, and domination and resistance. The papers collected here highlight the specific forms taken by such engagements and the ways in which they assume a key role in local political processes, offering new perspectives on issues ranging from the everyday …
Joy within tranquility: Amazonian Urarina styles of happiness
Enjoyment in life among Amazonian Urarina is examined through the lens of two contrastive concepts of happiness. The first, "tranquility," is a relatively long-term, relational condition implying emotional spontaneity and a flexible, freely chosen work routine that allows for a merging of action and awareness. It epitomizes a broader concern with the development of an individual "style of life," where attitudes, manners, and actions come into ali…
Values of happiness
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance …
Justice and the Dark Arts: Law and Shamanism in Amazonia
The idea of "law" as a regulating force external to individuals is rapidly gaining traction among Peruvian Urarina. Its uptake and mode of use have been guided by local forms of shamanic practice, reflecting the common basis of law and shamanism in ritual and violence. Yet despite people's best efforts to deploy law on their own terms-namely as a weapon through which a higher force or authority is harnessed to individual ends-law, unlike shamanis…
Reply to F austo
Wild Things: Manufacturing Desire in the Urarina Moral Economy
ResuménTomando como referencia el caso de los Urarina de Perú, este trabajo investiga la demanda actual por artículos de consumo de los pueblos amazónicos, caracterizándola como una economía del deseo, la cual tiene raíces en las experiencias históricas de la colonización. Las relaciones de "domesticazión," que durante mucho tiempo, han sido una característica de los encuentros con foráneos, las cuales median entre salvajes y el estado civilizado…
State of play: The political ontology of sport in Amazonian Peru
Building on the importance of "play" in traditional sociality, organized team sports such as soccer are instrumental in promoting a new moral and political order among Urarina people of Peruvian Amazonia, one grounded in notions of roles, rules, and the abstract individual. As a vehicle of nationalist sentiment, highly amenable to ritualization and bureaucratization, sport is central to the process by which the state expands its territory and inf…
Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one’s involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits a…
To have a master: Reply to Fausto
Demonic trade: Debt, materiality, and agency in Amazonia
This article examines Amazonian Urarina engagements with the system of debt peonage in light of the conceptual and ontological premises of the traditional subsistence economy. It argues that to view debt as a mechanism for harnessing indigenous labour is inadequate for comprehending the wilfulness with which Urarina indebt themselves to outsiders today, which should instead be considered in terms of local theories of agency and an aversion to imm…
The four seasons of the U'wa: A Chibcha ritual ecology in the Colombian Andes – By Ann Osborn
Osborn, Ann . The four seasons of the U'wa: a Chibcha ritual ecology in the Colombian Andes . xxiii, 250 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr . Wantage : Sean Kingston Publishing , 2009 . £49.99 (cloth ) In 1997, the U'wa garnered widespread recognition and sympathy as a remote and retiring tribe desperate to resist the incursions of British and American oil companies into their ancestral lands. Unwilling to stand by as their land and cultur…
Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary ethnoecological perspectives – Edited by Miguel N. Alexiades
Alexiades, Miguel N.ed.). Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: contemporary ethnoecological perspectives . xviii, 310 pp., maps, tables, bibliogrs . Oxford, New York : Berghahn Books , 2009 . £45.00 (cloth) Despite an upsurge of interest in the historical contingency of nature and of human-environmental interactions in Amazonia, assumptions persist that its indigenous peoples are historically emplaced and spatially static. So asserts th…
Soulful Voices: Birds, Language and Prophecy in Amazonia
This paper explores the significance of human-bird interactions among Peruvian Urarina, focusing on bird speech and its relation to concepts of voice, power and prophecy. It suggests that while the potential status of birds as subjects remains complex and uncertain, this very ambiguity has stimulated the development and refinement of more abstract ideas of meaning, language, and what it means to be human. The ways in which bird sounds signify is …
Fred Bowerman Kniffen (1900-1993)
Démosthène
Excavation of a Possible Neolithic Long Barrow or Mortuary Enclosure at Rivenhall, Essex, 1986
Aerial survey in Essex has revealed a number of elongated enclosures interpreted as either long barrows or mortuary enclosures of Neolithic date. Excavation of one of these sites at Rivenhall in 1986 produced finds of flintwork and pottery which help to substantiate this hypothesis. A surface collection survey of the field containing the enclosure produced Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork. A short discussion considers the Essex sites in their w…
Demonic trade: Debt, materiality, and agency in Amazonia
This article examines Amazonian Urarina engagements with the system of debt peonage in light of the conceptual and ontological premises of the traditional subsistence economy. It argues that to view debt as a mechanism for harnessing indigenous labour is inadequate for comprehending the wilfulness with which Urarina indebt themselves to outsiders today, which should instead be considered in terms of local theories of agency and an aversion to imm…
Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one’s involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits a…
Values of happiness
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance …
State of play: The political ontology of sport in Amazonian Peru
Building on the importance of "play" in traditional sociality, organized team sports such as soccer are instrumental in promoting a new moral and political order among Urarina people of Peruvian Amazonia, one grounded in notions of roles, rules, and the abstract individual. As a vehicle of nationalist sentiment, highly amenable to ritualization and bureaucratization, sport is central to the process by which the state expands its territory and inf…
Paper, Power, and Procedure: Reflections on Amazonian Appropriations of Bureaucracy and Documents
The creative and ever-expanding appropriations of bureaucracy and documents on the part of Amazonian peoples today transcend simple dichotomies between orality and literacy, state and non-state power, and domination and resistance. The papers collected here highlight the specific forms taken by such engagements and the ways in which they assume a key role in local political processes, offering new perspectives on issues ranging from the everyday …
Equality without equivalence: An Anthropology of the Common★
This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people. This kind of singularism, or 'individualism without individuals', results from an orientation to the common as …
Justice and the Dark Arts: Law and Shamanism in Amazonia
The idea of "law" as a regulating force external to individuals is rapidly gaining traction among Peruvian Urarina. Its uptake and mode of use have been guided by local forms of shamanic practice, reflecting the common basis of law and shamanism in ritual and violence. Yet despite people's best efforts to deploy law on their own terms-namely as a weapon through which a higher force or authority is harnessed to individual ends-law, unlike shamanis…
On logophagy and truth: Interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina
This paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in…
Joy within tranquility: Amazonian Urarina styles of happiness
Enjoyment in life among Amazonian Urarina is examined through the lens of two contrastive concepts of happiness. The first, "tranquility," is a relatively long-term, relational condition implying emotional spontaneity and a flexible, freely chosen work routine that allows for a merging of action and awareness. It epitomizes a broader concern with the development of an individual "style of life," where attitudes, manners, and actions come into ali…
Wild Things: Manufacturing Desire in the Urarina Moral Economy
ResuménTomando como referencia el caso de los Urarina de Perú, este trabajo investiga la demanda actual por artículos de consumo de los pueblos amazónicos, caracterizándola como una economía del deseo, la cual tiene raíces en las experiencias históricas de la colonización. Las relaciones de "domesticazión," que durante mucho tiempo, han sido una característica de los encuentros con foráneos, las cuales median entre salvajes y el estado civilizado…
Excavation of a Possible Neolithic Long Barrow or Mortuary Enclosure at Rivenhall, Essex, 1986
Aerial survey in Essex has revealed a number of elongated enclosures interpreted as either long barrows or mortuary enclosures of Neolithic date. Excavation of one of these sites at Rivenhall in 1986 produced finds of flintwork and pottery which help to substantiate this hypothesis. A surface collection survey of the field containing the enclosure produced Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork. A short discussion considers the Essex sites in their w…
Documents as Displaced Voice: Writing among Amazonian Urarina
Aunque los niveles de alfabetización sean aún bajos en la Amazonía, los Urarina del Perú emplean documentos con frecuencia y entusiasmo. Este artículo explora el uso y apropiación de documentos escritos en relación a ideologías locales del lenguaje y del poder, focalizándose en sus cualidades performativas, es decir, en lo que los documentos 'hacen'. A pesar de que el uso de documentos escritos cumple un rol importante conectando la población al …
To have a master: Reply to Fausto
Soulful Voices: Birds, Language and Prophecy in Amazonia
This paper explores the significance of human-bird interactions among Peruvian Urarina, focusing on bird speech and its relation to concepts of voice, power and prophecy. It suggests that while the potential status of birds as subjects remains complex and uncertain, this very ambiguity has stimulated the development and refinement of more abstract ideas of meaning, language, and what it means to be human. The ways in which bird sounds signify is …
How People Compare
This opening chapter starts with the observation that at its core, comparison is about establishing a relationship between two or more ‘things’ to thereby bring into view differences and similarities. Such acts of comparison are essential for people to make sense of and orient themselves in the world, while at the same time they will be affected (and constrained) by the comparative work of others. The chapter argues that the cross-cultural study …
Three Questions About the Social Life of Values
This afterword to the Qualifying Sociality through Values special issue reflects on the challenge, aptly considered by each contributor, to revamp and rejuvenate the sociality concept in light of the ethical turn. It poses three questions. Firstly, just how important are values for sociality? That is, to what extent is social action really conceived and executed through values? Secondly, how does sociality itself figure as a value, and how should…
Dislocating responsibility
Puccio-Den's reflections on mafiacraft are an insightful contribution to the broader project of tracing societal changes in the nature of personal responsibility and how this is contested and dislocated. The way in which individual mafiosi are impelled to act might also say something about the nature of responsibility everywhere, as intrinsically indeterminate and a consequence less of freedom than of susceptibility to the address of others
Reply to F austo
The Free Negro in North Carolina: 1790-1860.John Hope Franklin
The Negro in Colonial New England: 1620-1776.Lorenzo Johnston Greene
They Seek a City.Arna Bontemps , Jack Conroy
A Study of Business and Employment Among Negroes in Louisville. Bertram W. Doyle
The Racial Factor in Y.M.C.A.'s: A Report on Negro-White Relationships in Twenty-Four Cities. J. Howell Atwood
Changes in the Structure of Race Relations in the South
The Nature and Characteristics of the Negro Community
The Negro community is a peculiar instance of the American community. Like the immigrant community within our urban centers, it is a result of the processes of selection and segregation which determine the spatial location of ethnic and racial groups. Whereas language and custom form the bases for the development of immigrant communities, racial discrimination and to some extent the folk culture of the Negro are determining factors in the territo…
How Secure These Rights? Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1948: An Anti-Defamation League Survey. Ruth G. Weintraub
The Negro's Morale: Group Identification and Protest. Arnold M. Rose
Equality by Statute: Legal Controls over Group Discrimination
Brothers Under the Skin.Carey McWilliams
Some Basic Factors Involved in the Development of Community Acceptance of Desegregated Schools
As a result of the decision of the United States Supreme Court which holds that segregation in publicly supported schools is unconstitutional, communities throughout the South and border states, and some in Northern states, must now face the task of bringing about racial integration.' Some knowledge of the problems involved in integrating bi-racial school systems is made available by the experience of some communities which have successfully elim…
The Strange Career of Jim Crow. C. Vann Woodward
Man and Cultural Heritage: Papers in Honor of Fred B. Kniffen
Man and Cultural Heritage: Papers in Honor of Fred B. Kniffen
Gender Differences in Role Differentiation and Organizational Task Performance
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
IGU study group on marine geography
Excavation of a Possible Neolithic Long Barrow or Mortuary Enclosure at Rivenhall, Essex, 1986
Aerial survey in Essex has revealed a number of elongated enclosures interpreted as either long barrows or mortuary enclosures of Neolithic date. Excavation of one of these sites at Rivenhall in 1986 produced finds of flintwork and pottery which help to substantiate this hypothesis. A surface collection survey of the field containing the enclosure produced Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork. A short discussion considers the Essex sites in their w…
Démosthène
Fred Bowerman Kniffen (1900-1993)
Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary ethnoecological perspectives – Edited by Miguel N. Alexiades
Alexiades, Miguel N.ed.). Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: contemporary ethnoecological perspectives . xviii, 310 pp., maps, tables, bibliogrs . Oxford, New York : Berghahn Books , 2009 . £45.00 (cloth) Despite an upsurge of interest in the historical contingency of nature and of human-environmental interactions in Amazonia, assumptions persist that its indigenous peoples are historically emplaced and spatially static. So asserts th…
Soulful Voices: Birds, Language and Prophecy in Amazonia
This paper explores the significance of human-bird interactions among Peruvian Urarina, focusing on bird speech and its relation to concepts of voice, power and prophecy. It suggests that while the potential status of birds as subjects remains complex and uncertain, this very ambiguity has stimulated the development and refinement of more abstract ideas of meaning, language, and what it means to be human. The ways in which bird sounds signify is …
The four seasons of the U'wa: A Chibcha ritual ecology in the Colombian Andes – By Ann Osborn
Osborn, Ann . The four seasons of the U'wa: a Chibcha ritual ecology in the Colombian Andes . xxiii, 250 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr . Wantage : Sean Kingston Publishing , 2009 . £49.99 (cloth ) In 1997, the U'wa garnered widespread recognition and sympathy as a remote and retiring tribe desperate to resist the incursions of British and American oil companies into their ancestral lands. Unwilling to stand by as their land and cultur…
Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one’s involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits a…
To have a master: Reply to Fausto
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