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Single Shot: Interspecies Care and Responsibility

February 28, 2019February 26, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Leave a comment

Dog keeping is a polluted, unholy, and prohibited practice in rural Pakistan. Many Sunni Muslims belonging to Hanfi jurisprudence consider the dog’s mere presence in a house a symbol of misfortune and distance from God. If a person touches a dog, s/he is asked to wash hands seven times, and if they touch a wet dog, they must take a bath.

Making an Academic ‘Coven’

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Leave a comment

Hierarchies persist, which is why factions, such as covens, coalesce in the first place. They emerge from a place of need. A need to counteract isolation, disparate power within disciplines, or the worlds anthropologists inhabit as part of fieldwork, and the worlds that meld and twist as part of the analytical process.

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