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For an anthropology of destiny
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This preface develops an argument for a comparative anthropology that takes the concept of destiny as a fertile laboratory for anthropological thought. The articles in this collection show how destiny’s distinguishing heuristic feature may be what we call “malleable fixity”: a paradoxical juxtaposition of images of temporal and historical fixity with a practical reckoning and open-ended self-reorientation. Exploring the radically different ways in which destiny is evoked, enacted, and (re)theorized locally, we argue that an anthropology of destiny is, at its heart, the comparative study of diverse temporal orderings of human—as well as divine and cosmic—action.
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“More recent anthropological works on fate have emphasized its ''malleable fixity'' (Elliot and Menin 2018; Homola 2018), which is also relevant to this article on saju divination.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Elliot, A., & Menin, L.
- Affiliations
- Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
- Venue
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 292-299
- ISSN
- 2049-1115 (ISSN-L)
- 2575-1433
- OpenAlex
- W2809555710
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 10.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (publishedVersion)
- Goldsmiths (University of London) (acceptedVersion)
- BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion)
- Hau Network of Ethnographic Theory (University of Rochester) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Acceleration and Temporality
- Keywords
- fate, comparative anthropology, temporal order, divine action, anthropology of time
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