The Anti-Help
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4813805 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teodor Zidaru (0000-0003-4258-561X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Teodor Zidaru-Bărbulescu (London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2019.370203 |
| OpenAlex | W2992772982 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
Africanist scholarship and anthropological literature on envy offer a jaundiced take on the ugly feelings that can arise in the wake of increasing scarcity and inequality. Proposing an inductive approach that attends to the performativity of words and feelings, this article explores how a Gusii ideal of containing the expression and escalation of ugly feelings influences collective mutual help arrangements. It elaborates on local concerns with the 'anti-help', or the confrontational side of help where ugly feelings can be voiced, named, elicited or concealed. In doing so, the article tracks how containing the anti-help structures the relationship between language and emotion, while also acting upon inner experience and affording a political order where a variety of ugly feelings runs the risk of being reduced to envy
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The modernity of witchcraft
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Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations
Capital and time
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Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction
Envy at Work and in Organizations
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Narratives of scarcity
The Anatomy of Envy
Deadly words
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Mothers and Wives
Occult economies and the violence of abstraction
Moral crises
Emotions in the Field
The Dark Side of Empathy
Closed circles of mistrust
| Highly cited | No |
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