Attention has become an issue of intense political, economic, and moral concern over recent
years: from the commodification of attention by digital platforms to the alleged loss of the …

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological
approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such …

There has been a recent call for an anthropology of morality and a challenge to
anthropologists that they have been insufficiently attentive to moral aspects of social life. The …

Twenty-four years ago, Ethos published a special issue devoted to the topic of morality. The
volume, guest edited by Fiske and Mason (1990a), included contributions by a number of …

Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in
Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional …

In this article, I seek to examine how local moral concerns are revealed, contested, and
negotiated in instances wherein individuals take up ethically imbued and viscerally laden …

The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in recent years, capturing the
popular imagination and reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do. For …

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in
Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and …

The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and
unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means …

In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles
some of the foundational assumptions of modernity. What is a human subject under the …