Rosalind C Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 83738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalind C Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalind C |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2843-0108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Letters from Underground
What is the difference between reading and “giving a reading”? This essay explores that question and the different forms of approaching it given by anthropology and literary criticism while examining letters sent from underground by informal miners who have been the object of state-sponsored sieges in South Africa. It considers these brief missives against the backdrop of a rich tradition of letter-writing and reading by migrant miners (where epi…
Impasses of the Nation: The Practical Political Philosophy of Marcel Mauss
The nation is an enigmatic phenomenon, explains Marcel Mauss in his draft notes for the never-completed book, La Nation.1 It is a rare and recently emergent political form, he asserts, but it is preceded by the experience of nationality and the practices of international— or, as he prefers to term them, intersocial (and perhaps more properly named intersocietal) relations. It is a medium for administering a nationalized economy but something othe…
Statements, Decisions, and State Effects: On the State of History
The underground and the disappeared: Understanding the siege on informal gold mining in South Africa
Respirators, Not Furnished: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters
Respirators, not furnished" is a phrase that appears in Muriel Rukeyser's poetic sequence The Book of the Dead, addressed to the catastrophic silicosis epidemic that afflicted miners of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel. Using the example of Rukeyser's text, which I taught as part of a course on extractionism during the early months of the pandemic and again in its aftermath, the essay asks what it means to read on the precipice of disaster and what disaste…
The Ancestors Call from the Future: Genealogy, Ancestrality, Judgment
This article explores the recent and growing invocation of the concept of ancestrality in a self-consciously ethicized critical practice. It commences by undertaking a genealogy of ancestrality and reflecting on the convergences and divergences between these two terms—genealogy and ancestrality. The article then draws upon both the canonical anthropological archive wherein relations to ancestors were discussed and the author’s own extended resear…
Spivak’s Death of a Discipline: An Anthropologist Tries to Respond
This article explores Spivak’s long-standing engagement with anthropology, and reads Death of a Discipline as the third volume of a trilogy encompassing A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and Imperatives to Reimagine the Planet. In treating DoD as the third and “pragmatic” supplement to the first two texts, it explores the ways in which Spivak’s thought engages the problems bequeathed by Immanuel Kant’s own critical trilogy: the native informant, …
Book Symposium
On the Emic Gesture: Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner, by Iracema Dulley. New York: Routledge, 2019
Butcher shop
In this "hundreds" written in honor of Kathleen Stewart, I offer a dialectical image of subjects transfixed in the window of a New York City butcher shop, set against the backdrop of pandemic
C atherine M eyburgh and R ichard P akleppa , directors. Dying for Gold
Destruction or dialectics: Other iconoclasms and the new heritage culture industry
This essay examines Zoë Strother's efforts to historicize recent debates about the repatriation of cultural heritage while also situating contemporary protest movements, such as "Rhodes Must Fall," in the long and varied history of iconoclasm on the African continent. Additionally, it considers what might be gained conceptually if iconoclasm is extended to encompass forms of critique directed against dominant image traditions by feminists and cri…
Shadow and Impress: Ethnography, Film, and the Task of Writing History in the Space of South Africa's Deindustrialization
The historiography of natural-resource extraction, especially in colonial contexts, is often torn between two temptations: to represent these histories in narratives commencing with discovery, and thus rupture; or to render them in tales of continuity and thus an identity that transcends history. In the increasingly common scenarios of deindustrialization, these twin temptations are sutured together via the figure of return. Thus, accounts of pos…
Conflicts and Crisis in the Faculties: The Humanities in an Age of Identity
Conflicts and Crisis in the Faculties:The Humanities in an Age of Identity Rosalind C. Morris (bio) the humanities are in crisis. and this is part of their self-identity. To say that the Humanities1 are constitutively in crisis is to imply, via the reading that has come to us from Reinhart Kosseleck, that their fundamental task is historical, in the sense that they entail the transmission of forms and values across time, and in the sense that tim…
Mediation, the Political Task: Between Language and Violence in Contemporary South Africa
Two paradigms of communication confront each other in South Africa today. One posits an ideal public sphere that recognizes the task of mediation but also requires its effacement. The other, frustrated by deferral, seeks to bypass mediation through apparently immediate forms of speech that range from visual slogans to messianic utterances that can be heard even by the dead. When viewed ethnographically, these competing conceptions and aspirations…
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation, Marx's term for the logically paradoxical phenomenon of an accumulation that is both the effect and the origin of capitalist accumulation, has been the topic of nearly endless debate since the publication of Das Kapital. Many analyses of this concept have centered on its place in largely stage-ist accounts of national and/or epochal histories. This article revisits these debates and argues for a translation of the term…
Dialect and Dialectic in “The Working Day” of Marx's Capital
The rhetorical virtuosity of “The Working Day” chapter in Marx's Das Kapital consists in its staging of two distinct registers of political vocality. On the one hand, the transparent subject of a future scene is given form as that voice which arises to confront capital in its own terms. But in the footnotes that accompany the chapter, Marx quotes the reportage of various humanitarian agencies and the testimony of workers (not The Worker) in a man…
Margaret Elaine Combs-Schilling
Deconstruction's doubt
Comment on Bubandt, Nils. 2014. The empty seashell: Witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City April 17–July 28, 2013
Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit
April 01 2013 Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), South Africa, and Senior Fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her work ranges in topical focus from South Africa to Southeast Asia and addres…
Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism, Crime, and Styles of Desire
Populist Politics in Asian Networks: Positions for Rethinking the Question of Political Subjectivity
This article examines the history of populist politics in Asia, and particularly in Thailand, in relation to two major developments: the rise of culturalism on the one hand, and the emergence of technologically mediated forms of protest politics on the other. Against a backdrop in which culturalism came to displace the more agonistic framework of class analysis, the essay explores transformations in the concept of political subjectivity, and the …
In the Name of Trauma
Research Article| September 01 2011 In the Name of Trauma:Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Columbia University Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1994. Her most recent books are Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia and Can the Subaltern Speak: Reflections on the …
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History
Preface and acknowledgements -- China in the world in Mao's youth -- From liberal to communist, 1912/1921 -- Toward the peasant revolution, 1921/1927 -- Establishing revolutionary bases : from Jinggangshan to Yan'an, 1928/1935 -- Yan'an, the war of resistance against Japan, and civil war, 1935/1949 -- Stabilizing society and the transition to socialism, 1949/1957 -- Great leap and restoration, 1958/1965 -- The cultural revolution : politics in co…
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value
Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand
Research Article| February 01 1994 Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (1): 15–43. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-1-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing …
Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand
Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand. Katherine A. Bowie. New York: Columbia University- Press, 1997
Legacies of Derrida: Anthropology
This article considers the legacies of Jacques Derrida in and for Anglo-American sociocultural anthropology. It begins with a survey of Derrida's own engagement with themes that have historically been foundational to the field: (a) the critique of sign theory and, with it, the questions of language and law in Lévi-Straussian structuralism; (b) the question of the unconscious; (c) the critique of the performative and its consequences for the idea …
Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand
Research Article| May 01 2000 Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 457–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-457 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Accidental Histories, Post-Historical Practice: Re-reading Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance in the Actuarial Age
To read and reread Jean Comaroff's Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance today, more than two decades after its publication, is to be reminded of what historical anthropology can be, and to confront what it seems no longer capable of being. In this essay, I return to Comaroff's explicit analysis of the conjuncture of blood and money, and the less theorized figures of the car as the sign of foreign economic power in order to think again about the re…
Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from Southeast Asia
Research Article| February 01 2008 Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from Southeast Asia Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 229–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma …
Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of Aids
Research Article| May 01 2008 Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of AIDS Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-024 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on …
Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit
April 01 2013 Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), South Africa, and Senior Fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her work ranges in topical focus from South Africa to Southeast Asia and addres…
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation, Marx's term for the logically paradoxical phenomenon of an accumulation that is both the effect and the origin of capitalist accumulation, has been the topic of nearly endless debate since the publication of Das Kapital. Many analyses of this concept have centered on its place in largely stage-ist accounts of national and/or epochal histories. This article revisits these debates and argues for a translation of the term…
Anthropology in the Body Shop: Lords of the Garden, Cannibalism, and the Consuming Desires of Televisual Anthropology
Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, and Transgression
Les echanges au sein de la « diaspora » homosexuelle internationale sont censes avoir des effets de liberalisation. L'A. montre que ce n'est pas le cas en Thailande en ce qui concerne les pratiques sexuelles des hommes. Par exemple, la principale institution de formation des enseignants en Thailande, l'Institut Ratchabat, pratique une segregation envers les homosexuels depuis quelques annees. L'A. analyse egalement les multiples interpretations q…
Mediation, the Political Task: Between Language and Violence in Contemporary South Africa
Two paradigms of communication confront each other in South Africa today. One posits an ideal public sphere that recognizes the task of mediation but also requires its effacement. The other, frustrated by deferral, seeks to bypass mediation through apparently immediate forms of speech that range from visual slogans to messianic utterances that can be heard even by the dead. When viewed ethnographically, these competing conceptions and aspirations…
Images of untranslatability in the US war on terror
This paper is considers the use deployment of images and the discourse of noise in the War on Terror. I argue that the deployment of imagery, often in lieu of language, rests on particular developments in the mass media, and on the emergence of what Paul Virilio has termed ‘technical fundamentalism’ (2002a: 53). Technical fundamentalism is then considered in relation to and as a counterpart to terrorism, as a contrasting mode of valorizing techni…
Failures of Domestication: Speculations on Globality, Economy, and the Sex of Excess in Thailand
rosalind c. morris is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is also Associate Editor for the journal, connect: art,politics, culture, theory. Her most recent book, In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand was published by Duke University Press in 2000
Dialect and Dialectic in “The Working Day” of Marx's Capital
The rhetorical virtuosity of “The Working Day” chapter in Marx's Das Kapital consists in its staging of two distinct registers of political vocality. On the one hand, the transparent subject of a future scene is given form as that voice which arises to confront capital in its own terms. But in the footnotes that accompany the chapter, Marx quotes the reportage of various humanitarian agencies and the testimony of workers (not The Worker) in a man…
The War Drive
Research Article| June 01 2007 The War Drive: IMAGE FILES CORRUPTED Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 103–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; The War Drive: IMAGE FILES CORRUPTED. Social Text 1 June 2007; 25 (2 (91)): 103–142. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976-1992
Research Article| May 01 1998 Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976–1992 Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 341–370. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-341 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Surviving P…
Shadow and Impress: Ethnography, Film, and the Task of Writing History in the Space of South Africa's Deindustrialization
The historiography of natural-resource extraction, especially in colonial contexts, is often torn between two temptations: to represent these histories in narratives commencing with discovery, and thus rupture; or to render them in tales of continuity and thus an identity that transcends history. In the increasingly common scenarios of deindustrialization, these twin temptations are sutured together via the figure of return. Thus, accounts of pos…
Populist Politics in Asian Networks: Positions for Rethinking the Question of Political Subjectivity
This article examines the history of populist politics in Asia, and particularly in Thailand, in relation to two major developments: the rise of culturalism on the one hand, and the emergence of technologically mediated forms of protest politics on the other. Against a backdrop in which culturalism came to displace the more agonistic framework of class analysis, the essay explores transformations in the concept of political subjectivity, and the …
In the Name of Trauma
Research Article| September 01 2011 In the Name of Trauma:Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Columbia University Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1994. Her most recent books are Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia and Can the Subaltern Speak: Reflections on the …
Imperial Pastoral: The Politics and Aesthetics of Translation in British Malaya
This essay considers the general force of anachronism in the British imperial project in peninsular Southeast Asia, an anachronism that was enacted in the translational efforts of educational officials as well as the curricular programs and educational policies of the colonial administration. The essay refers to this anachronism as a kind of "imperial pastoralism," which aesthetic conflated rurality and husbandry while eschewing the possibility o…
The Ancestors Call from the Future: Genealogy, Ancestrality, Judgment
This article explores the recent and growing invocation of the concept of ancestrality in a self-consciously ethicized critical practice. It commences by undertaking a genealogy of ancestrality and reflecting on the convergences and divergences between these two terms—genealogy and ancestrality. The article then draws upon both the canonical anthropological archive wherein relations to ancestors were discussed and the author’s own extended resear…
Deconstruction's doubt
Comment on Bubandt, Nils. 2014. The empty seashell: Witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Remembering Asian Anticolonialism, Again
Gertrude Stein once remarked that history must be understood not as the passage of time, but as the killing of centuries. This killing of centuries takes a very long time, she added, and she discerned the final death throes of the nineteenth century-a period in thrall to science and the idea of civilizational progress-in the middle of World War II. Being an American Jew in France, that denouement was realized, for her, by Hitler's Germany, in the…
Style, Tsotsi-style, and Tsotsitaal
This essay examines the historical emergence and recent revival of the figure of the tsotsi via the transatlantic migration of aesthetic forms and their dispersal across generic and social spaces. The historical arc of the tsotsi traverses a period that opens at the beginning of apartheid and stretches into the present. I argue that this era saw the developing recognition on the part of the settler colonial state that coercive apparati needed to …
Supreme Fictions: Is it Time to Choose
Always Historicize!" Thus begins Frederick Jameson's book, The Political Unconscious. It is also the call to arms in the debates about poststructuralism and postmodern anthropology, at least in those led by the proponents of a more classically conceived Critical Anthropology. As though to fulfil Evans-Pritchard's prophecy that anthropology will become history or nothing at all, our practitioners seem extraordinarily concerned with the problem of …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920. Elizabeth Edwards
Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand
Research Article| February 01 1994 Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (1): 15–43. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-1-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing …
All Made Up: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender
This review considers the impact of recent performance theory, especially the theory of gender performativity, on anthropological efforts to theorize sex and gender. In brief, the theory of performativity defines gender as the effect of discourse, and sex as the effect of gender. The theory is characterized by a concern with the productive force rather than the meaning of discourse and by its privileging of ambiguity and indeterminacy. This revie…
New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures
Preview: Persistence of Vision. Through a Glass Darkly: Terms and Problems for Analysis * Celluloid Savages: Salvage Ethnography and the Narration of Disappearance * Totems and the Potlatch People: Absence, Presence, and the Denial of History * Remembering: The Narratives of Renewal * Wider Angles: Toward a Conclusion
Anthropology in the Body Shop: Lords of the Garden, Cannibalism, and the Consuming Desires of Televisual Anthropology
Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, and Transgression
Les echanges au sein de la « diaspora » homosexuelle internationale sont censes avoir des effets de liberalisation. L'A. montre que ce n'est pas le cas en Thailande en ce qui concerne les pratiques sexuelles des hommes. Par exemple, la principale institution de formation des enseignants en Thailande, l'Institut Ratchabat, pratique une segregation envers les homosexuels depuis quelques annees. L'A. analyse egalement les multiples interpretations q…
The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village
Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand
Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand. Katherine A. Bowie. New York: Columbia University- Press, 1997
Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976-1992
Research Article| May 01 1998 Surviving Pleasure at the Periphery: Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand, 1976–1992 Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 341–370. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-341 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Surviving P…
Fetish, Recognition, Revolution
This text is concerned with the role of language in the Indonesian revolution. It traces the beginnings of the revolution, which ended Dutch colonial rule, to the last part of the 19th century, at which time the peoples of the Dutch East Indies began to translate literature from around the world. Siegel discovers in that moment a force within communication more important than the specific messages it conveyed. The subsequent containment of this l…
Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand
Research Article| May 01 2000 Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 457–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-457 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship?: On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand
Failures of Domestication: Speculations on Globality, Economy, and the Sex of Excess in Thailand
rosalind c. morris is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is also Associate Editor for the journal, connect: art,politics, culture, theory. Her most recent book, In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand was published by Duke University Press in 2000
Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror
Social Text - 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002
Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art of Historical Unknowability
This paper considers the art of South African artist, Clive van den Berg. Van den Berg has long been engaged in a careful exploration of landscapes and their capacity to bear traces of what is no longer known, often in ways that question the archive fever of contemporary historians and cultural activists. In a variety of media – from fire‐installations to oil pastel, from light and wood to acrylic, in video and in mono‐print – he has probed the h…
At Home and Abroad in America's Academy
Images of untranslatability in the US war on terror
This paper is considers the use deployment of images and the discourse of noise in the War on Terror. I argue that the deployment of imagery, often in lieu of language, rests on particular developments in the mass media, and on the emergence of what Paul Virilio has termed ‘technical fundamentalism’ (2002a: 53). Technical fundamentalism is then considered in relation to and as a counterpart to terrorism, as a contrasting mode of valorizing techni…
Imperial Pastoral: The Politics and Aesthetics of Translation in British Malaya
This essay considers the general force of anachronism in the British imperial project in peninsular Southeast Asia, an anachronism that was enacted in the translational efforts of educational officials as well as the curricular programs and educational policies of the colonial administration. The essay refers to this anachronism as a kind of "imperial pastoralism," which aesthetic conflated rurality and husbandry while eschewing the possibility o…
Legacies of Derrida: Anthropology
This article considers the legacies of Jacques Derrida in and for Anglo-American sociocultural anthropology. It begins with a survey of Derrida's own engagement with themes that have historically been foundational to the field: (a) the critique of sign theory and, with it, the questions of language and law in Lévi-Straussian structuralism; (b) the question of the unconscious; (c) the critique of the performative and its consequences for the idea …
The War Drive
Research Article| June 01 2007 The War Drive: IMAGE FILES CORRUPTED Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 103–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; The War Drive: IMAGE FILES CORRUPTED. Social Text 1 June 2007; 25 (2 (91)): 103–142. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from Southeast Asia
Research Article| February 01 2008 Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from Southeast Asia Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 229–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma …
Witchcraft
What explains the social power of music in the United States today? What allows Americans to invoke it as the cause of antisocial violence, as well as of personal expressivity? This essay contemplates the peculiar American invention of a musical culture defined by generation, which has political force without being properly political. It suggests that this music has come to play the part assigned to witchcraft in many other societies, bearing wit…
Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of Aids
Research Article| May 01 2008 Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of AIDS Rosalind C. Morris Rosalind C. Morris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-024 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosalind C. Morris; Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on …
William Kentridge: Five themes
With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans - both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse.This extraordinary catalog, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career such as: Soh…
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