Index

Abbot, Andrew, 4, 13
abduction, 9–10
absorption, 49–50, 75, 78
actor-network theory, 5
Agamben, Giorgio, 46, 47, 188, 190
Agar, Jon, 134–35
agnosticism, 71, 77
All-Party Parliamentary Group, 18
alterity, 30, 66
alt-right movement, 163, 173–79. See also right-wing politics
analysis, 85, 86, 165
Anscombe, Elizabeth, 46
anthropological explanation. See explanation
anthropological problems: approaches to, 25–27; “category mistake,” 29–30, 40–41; dissolution of, 14–15, 26–34, 37–38, 41; empirical resolution of, 26–27; explanation and, 30–42. See also ethnographic puzzles
anthropology: anti-explanatory mood in, 2–8, 27, 104–5; classical, 19, 45, 104–5, 121; epistemology of, 5–8, 19; mixed methods, 49–50. See also description; ethnographic foundationalism; ethnography; interpretation
antifoundationalism, 5–6
Appadurai, Arjun, 126, 133
Archetti, Eduardo, 31
Arendt, Hannah, 190–92
arguments: normative, 214; singularizing, 84–86, 90, 94–99
Aristotle, 11, 175
artwork: distortion in, 145–47, 149–58; divine nature of, 157–58; miracles and, 155–56
asylum-seeking process, 17, 19, 181–97; hospitality and, 184–86, 192; hostility and, 184–85; location and, 182–84, 191, 197; territoriality and, 182–84, 188, 190–92, 196–97
atheism, 71, 77, 173
audiences, 13, 45, 93, 147, 159, 175, 179, 224
Augustine, 59
Aulino, Felicity, 58
Austen, Jane, 84
Austin, J. L., 186
Authors: politics of, 221–39; private life, 225–28
Avenarius, Richard, 129

Badone, Ellen, 68
“because,” 228–33
behavior: belief and, 165, 167; explanations of, 11, 13, 51, 87, 104; individual, 146; mental states and, 54–55; metacognition and, 179; miracles and, 72, 75; postmodernism and, 121; rules and, 107; symbolic capital and, 109; worldview and, 148
behaviorism, 117
belief: apparently irrational, 163–64, 167–69; behavior and, 165, 167; belief-motivation-action equation, 165–71, 177–78; knowledge and, 170 (see also knowledge); language and, 168–69; miracles and, 71–78; monotheism and, 170; philosophers on, 47; reflective, 170; truth and, 54, 56
Bialecki, Jon, 2, 15, 63–78
Bloch, Maurice, 45
Boas, Franz, 20n6, 108, 112, 138
Boddy, Janice, 68
bodies: absorption and, 50; artistic distortion of, 145–47, 149–58; of asylum seekers, 189–91, 197; displacement of, 115, 117–18; mental events, 57, 59–60; mind-body dualism, 54, 166; in modern societies, 120. See also cognition; mental health; mental illness
borders, 182–84, 188, 190, 192–97
Borofsky, R., 45
Bourdieu, Pierre, 15, 107–22, 169, 172, 177, 188, 226–28
Boyer, Dominic, 83, 96–97
Boyer, Pascal, 47
bracketing, 88
Brahinsky, Josh, 58
British Union of Fascists, 229, 235
Bücher, Karl, 129–31
Butler, Judith, 190
by-product explanation, 93–98

Cabot, Heath, 181, 186, 192, 195–97
Callon, Michel, 126, 137
Cambridge University, 46
Candea, Matei, 2, 15, 19, 27, 35, 65–67, 73–76, 81–100, 185
capitalism, 135
Carrithers, Michael, 84–85, 90–91
categories: “category mistake” framework, 29–30, 40–41; conceptual, 26–27, 40–41; polythetic, 32–34, 36–37, 40
Catholicism, 67
causal explanation, 11–12, 15–16, 18; “because,” 228–33; formal vs. efficient, 122n1
cause and effect, 5, 127
Central America, 56
Chewong, 54
Chicago Templeton Network, 48
China, 58
Chomsky, Noam, 117
Christianity: anthropologies of, 63–64, 69; charismatic, 68–78; evangelical, 51–60, 70–78, 165; Pentecostal, 58, 63, 68, 72, 74; reflective belief and, 170; Vineyard (charismatic movement), 70–78. See also God
Churchill, Winston, 147, 150
citizenship, 192–93
Clifford, James, 123n4
cognition: theories of, 53–60, 165–79. See also mental events; metacognition
cognitive anthropology, 166
Coleman, Simon, 47
collective norms, 104–5, 108–9, 122
Collini, Stefan, 100n1
colonialism, 106, 110, 123n4, 234, 236. See also postcolonialism
comparison: anthropological debates on, 45, 86–87; by-product, 95–98; emergent explanation and, 99–100; empirical, 48–60; epistemology and, 35, 88; “explanation-like effects” and, 15, 71–78; fractal, 74–76; frontal, 65, 68–70, 78, 94, 98; generalizations and, 88–89, 131; as heuristic, 87–89, 94, 98; implicit, 94, 95–96; lateral, 73–74, 76, 95, 98; of modern/nonmodern societies, 114
conceptual categories, 26–27, 40–41
context-based explanation, 16, 160–61
Cook, Joanna, 2, 18, 19, 201–17
Corsica, 185
counterfeits. See fake explanations

Danziger, Eve, 55
Darwinism, 12
Dawkins, Richard, 173
Day, Vox, 16, 19, 163–64, 173–79
decolonization, 106. See also postcolonialism
deconstruction, 107, 121
deduction, 7, 9, 132, 137
deductive-nomothetic (D-N) theory, 8, 10–12, 20n6
definition, problems of, 32–35; efforts to define fascism, 35–40
Deleuze, Gilles, 72, 188
Derrida, Jacques, 184–86, 188, 196
Descartes, René, 59, 166
description: analysis and, 85; as anthropological task, 7, 28, 33–34, 98; in classical anthropology, 104; explanation and, 15; implicit explanation and, 85–86, 99; theory and, 84; thick, 4, 95, 98; understanding and, 41
descriptionism (in physics), 128
deterritorialization, 188
dialectic, 175–78
differences: between Christian movements, 49, 72–74; comparison and, 88 (See also comparison); core experiences and, 59; cultural, 45; empirical research and, 51, 53, 57; explanatory, 99–100 (See also emergent explanation); between nonmodern societies, 114, 120; ontology and, 66, 165–66; organic solidarity and, 111
Dinka, 84
dissolution of problems, 14–15, 26–34, 37–38, 41
distortion (of human figure in Spencer’s art), 145–47, 149–58; from design, 151–52, 158–59; from divinity, 157–59; from emotion, 152–55, 158–59; from spirit, 155–59
Dix, Otto, 155
dogma, 168–69, 177
dominant class, 110, 114–18, 120, 122, 123n4, 237
Douglas, Mary, 12, 184
doxa, 169, 177
Dresch, Paul, 39
Dulin, John, 58
Dumont, Louis, 111
Durkheim, Émile, 12, 105, 109, 111, 113, 116, 117, 119, 166
Dzokoto, Vivian, 58

Eco, Umberto, 37
economic anthropology, 125–26, 129–33, 137
economic capital, 108–10, 113
economic explanation, 125–38; mechanism and, 16, 126–28, 131–38, 139n10; national economy, 134–35; in nonmodern societies, 130–34
economics, 46. See also gift exchange; trade
economic value, 203, 206, 215–17, 217n2
education, 118–19; economy and, 125; metacognition and, 172
Elden, Stuart, 188
emergent explanation, 81–100; defined, 99–100; explicit, 81–82, 89, 91–92, 99–100; implicit, 81–86, 89–90, 94, 99
empirical research, 7, 26–27, 31, 47–60
epistemology: of anthropology, 5–8, 19; comparison and, 35, 88; economics and, 129; ethnography and, 5–7; evidence and, 214; reflexive questions, 3
Esposito, Roberto, 188
ethics: ethical value, 202–4, 206–9, 212, 215–17, 217n2; of explanation, 2, 19, 68, 70, 78; informants and, 66; metacognition and, 172; philosophy and, 25; value judgments and, 111
ethnographic foundationalism, 2, 5–7, 17, 64–65, 127, 172, 179
ethnographic puzzles, 26–27, 31, 49–51, 203; debate and, 60; definition as puzzle, 32–35; miracles, 63–64. See also anthropological problems
ethnography: epistemology and, 5–7; explanation of (see explanation); lumping vs. splitting, 72–73; showing vs. telling, 28, 29, 34, 83
European Neighbourhood Policy, 188
European Union (EU), refugees in, 181–97
evangelicalism. See Christianity
Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 4, 12, 20n6, 28, 30, 40–41, 46–48
evidence, 48, 202, 205–9, 213–14, 217
evolutionism, social, 3, 12, 106–7, 112, 117, 123n6, 130
exclusion, 235
experimental methods, 52–54, 58
expertise, 18–19, 133; authority of, 164; autonomy of literature and, 227–28; public policy and, 206; technical, 19. See also specialist knowledge
explanation: anthropological, 1–8, 14–19; defined, 1–3, 45; as emergent, 60; in empirical settings, 16–19; “explanatory goodness,” 10, 13–14; philosophical accounts of, 8–15, 31; relevance and, 12; sociological, 15–16; ubiquity of, 9–10, 18; values and, 19; varied forms of, 8–15, 18. See also by-product explanation; causal explanation; economic explanation; emergent explanation; explicit explanation; fake explanations; functionalist explanation; implicit explanation; interest-relative explanation; little explanations; nomothetic explanation; performative explanation; structuralist explanation; unificationist explanation
“explanation-like” effects, 71–78
explicit explanation, 81–82, 89, 91–92, 99–100
exteriority, 107, 110, 115, 123n4

fake explanations, 181–82, 185–87, 195–97
familiarity model, 13
family resemblance terms, 32–34, 36–37, 40
Fanon, Frantz, 237
Farage, Nigel, 164
Far Right, 37, 235, 239. See also right-wing politics
fascism: definitions of, 35–40; Henry Williamson Society explanations of, 221–39
Fassin, Didier, 181–82, 186–87, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197
Faubion, James, 83
Favret-Saada, Jeanne, 122, 123n4
Fechner, Gustav, 127
findings, 50–60; limits of, 51
Firth, Raymond, 133
Fisher, Lawrence, 87, 89
Flavell, John, 171–72
Forster, E. M., 160
Fortes, Meyer, 46, 48, 133
Foucault, Michel, 47, 187, 204
France: organic solidarity, 118–20; refugees in, 181–83, 185, 187, 189, 196, 198n2, 198n4
Francis (pope), 194
Frankl, Viktor, 207
Frazer, James, 129–30, 178
freedom of speech, 175
free enterprise, 132, 135
French National Center for Scientific Research, 122
Freud, Sigmund, 118
Frontex, 194
functionalist explanation, 4, 12, 16, 86, 111, 119, 128–29
Furedi, Frank, 100n1

Gaskins, Suzanne, 55
Geertz, Clifford, 4, 14, 47–48
Gellner, Ernest, 30, 34, 46–47
gender, 189, 210
generalizations, 11, 15, 32–33, 60, 178, 185; comparison and, 88–89, 131; emergent explanations and, 99; as hypothesis, 50; philosophical, 26; restricted, 35
Gerth, Hans, 134
Ghana, 57–58
gift exchange, 108–9, 116, 129, 135, 138; kinship and, 126, 131
Gillen, F. J., 129
God: Creation, 155–57, 159; existence of, 70, 77; hearing voice of, 50–60, 72–73
Goody, Jack, 46
governmentality, 204
Gow, Peter, 5
Graeber, David, 6
Greece, refugees in, 181, 184–85, 192–95
Green, Sarah, 2, 17, 19, 181–97
Gregory, Christopher, 125–26, 134, 137, 138, 138n7
Grosz, George, 155

habitus, 117–18, 120, 121, 149, 169
Hamm, Jeffrey, 235
Harding, Susan, 165
Hauser, Kitty, 147
Hayek, Friedrich, 135–37
Heidegger, Martin, 226
Henry Williamson Society, 18, 221–39
hermeneutics, 4, 7
Herrmann, Emanuel, 128
Herskovits, Melville, 133, 135
heuristics, 14, 41, 59; comparison, 87–89, 94, 98
Heywood, Paolo, 2, 14, 25–42
Higher Education Funding Council for England, 6
hinterlands, 66–67, 73
Hirschman, Daniel, 134
Hitler, Adolf, 18, 221, 223, 229, 230–32, 234, 235. See also Nazi Germany
Holbraad, Martin, 6, 34, 66, 100n2
holism, 105–7, 109, 113, 116, 120–22
Horton, R., 179
hospitality, 184–86, 192
hostility, 184–85
Howell, Signe, 54
Hufford, David, 59
humanism, 4
humanitarianism, 17, 183, 187, 189–90, 194, 196, 197
human rights, 17, 183, 190–92, 196, 197
Hume, David, 9, 66
Hunt, George, 138
Hutu refugees, 183–84
Hyland, Terry, 202

Ibena (Trobriand chief), 138
Ifversen, Jan, 188
Ilongot, 54
imagination, 84–85
implicit explanation, 81–86, 89–90, 94, 99
individualism, 15, 105–22
individuals, worldviews of, 145–49, 158–61
induction, 9
informants, 93, 138
information, 163–65; political, 175. See also post-truth
Ingold, Tim, 125
instrumentalization, 202, 203–4, 208, 213, 215, 217
intellectual violence, 64, 72
intentions, 11
interdisciplinary research, 83
interest-relative explanation, 13, 16, 18
interests, 118–20, 123n5, 203. See also self-interest
interiority, 159–60
interpretation: contrast between explanation and, 4, 10–13; ethnography as, 47–48; importance of, 28
interview protocols, structured, 49, 58–59
intricacy, 89
irrationality, 108, 148, 163–64, 167–71. See also rationality
Iser, Wolfgang, 84
Italy, 39–40

James, William, 57, 58–59, 148
Jaynes, Julian, 57
Jevons, Stanley, 126

Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 201, 214
Kabyles (Algerian Berbers), 109–10, 112–15, 117–21, 123n4, 169
Keynes, John Maynard, 46, 125–26, 134
kinship, 108–9, 114, 126, 239; gift exchange and, 126, 131
Kirsch, Thomas, 216
Knight, Frank, 125, 132, 133, 136, 137, 138n7
knowledge: belief and, 170 (see also belief); political advocacy and, 203; specialist, 119, 133, 137; theories of cognition and, 165–66; useful, 212–15. See also expertise
Kølvraa, Christoffer, 188
Kripke, Saul, 39, 46
Kula ring, 131, 136, 138
Kwakwaka’wakw, 138
Kyrgyz migrant workers, 196
Kyriakides, Theodoros, 6

Laidlaw, James, 47
Lambek, Michael, 68, 203, 215–16, 217n2
Lambert, H., 217n3
language: belief and, 168–69; cognition and, 168–69, 172; dialectic, 175–78; functioning of, 32–34; ordinary, 32–33, 37, 168, 227; philosophical problems and, 25–26, 28–29, 31, 47; rhetorical, 175–79; rigid designators, 39–40; Soviet, shifts in, 96–97; transparency of, 56
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 76
Larsen, Timothy, 67
Latour, Bruno, 5, 10, 19, 25, 28, 101n4
laws of nature, 10–12, 68, 105
Leach, Edmund, 14, 32–33, 35, 46, 168–69, 172, 177
LeClair, Edward, 133
Leenhardt, Maurice, 57
legal terms, 39–40
Legare, Christine, 58
Lemelson, Robert, 61n1
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 12, 107–9, 111, 113–15, 117–18, 121
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 30, 178
Lewis, C. S., 52, 68
liberalism, 38, 67, 135, 173, 176, 203, 211
Lienhardt, Godfrey, 84, 100n2
Lillard, Angela, 54–55
Lipton, Peter, 10, 12, 20n7
literary criticism, 47–48
literary societies. See Henry Williamson Society
literature: autonomy of, 225–28, 236; interiority and, 160
little explanations, 18, 225, 228–36
location, 182–84, 191, 197
London School of Economics, 129, 135
Luhrmann, Tanya M., 2, 15, 19, 45–60, 70–78

Mach, Ernst, 16, 126–29, 132, 137, 138, 139n7
magic, 30, 67, 98, 115; economy and, 130, 135, 138n7
Maine, Henry, 111
Mair, Jonathan, 2, 16–17, 19, 163–79
Malaysian peninsula, 54
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 16, 28, 45, 94, 125–26, 128–38, 138n7, 167, 177
Malkki, Liisa, 183–84, 190
Mannheim, K., 122n2
Marcus, George, 83
market economies, 125–26, 134–36, 138
Marx, Karl, 105, 116, 126
material capital. See economic capital
Mauss, Marcel, 108–9, 135, 138
Mead, Margaret, 45, 49–51
mechanics and mechanism: economics and, 16, 126–28, 131–38, 139n10; explanation and, 12–13, 18, 19
meditation, 207–8, 212
Melanesia, 54–56
mental events, 57, 59–60
mental health, 201–2, 205, 210, 214, 217
mental illness, 50–51, 72
metacognition, 163, 171–73, 177–79, 207
metaphysics, 7, 25, 29, 66
Miller, D., 45
Mills, C. Wright, 134
mind, theories of, 53–60, 165–79
mind-body dualism, 54, 166
Mindful Nation UK (report), 18, 201–17
mindfulness, 18, 201–17
miracles, 15; art and, 155–56; domestic, 66–78; existence of, 70; internal logic of, 69, 70; as magic, 67; ontological framing of, 64–70
Mirowski, Philip, 139n10
Mitchell, Timothy, 134, 136
mixed methods, 49–50
“modern” societies, 105–22, 123n6
Mol, Annemarie, 92, 101n5
Moloney, Paul, 202
monotheism, 170
monothetic categories, 34, 37
Moore, Henrietta, 47
Mopan Mayans, 55
Mosley, Diana, 236
Mosley, Oswald, 18, 221, 223, 230, 232, 235
motivation, 165–71, 177–78
Mouffe, Chantal, 185
Munnings, Alfred, 150
Mussolini, Benito, 40
mystical experiences, 58

Nassy Brown, Jacqueline, 237–38
national economy, 134–35
nationality, 184, 234
natural law, 10–12, 68, 105
Nazi Germany, 40, 191, 223, 226, 229, 234. See also fascism; Hitler, Adolf; World War, Second
Needham, Rodney, 14, 26, 32–35, 37, 41, 47
neoliberalism, 5, 38, 96, 135
neo-Nazism, 235
New Atheists, 173
Newton, Isaac, 127
Ng, Emily, 58
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 129, 160
nomothetic explanation, 4, 15–17. See also deductive-nomothetic (D-N) theory
nonindividualistic societies, 105–6
“nonmodern” societies: economics, 130–35, 137; individualism and holism, 106–22; science, 139n7
norms, 214; collective, 104–5, 108–9, 122

objectivism, 107–8, 110
objectivity, 89, 129, 155, 186
observations, 9–10, 13–15, 28; analysis and, 85; descriptions of, 130; experimental methods and, 52–54, 58; findings and, 50, 60; limits of, 48; politics and, 230, 238
ontology: differences and, 66, 165–66; evidence and, 214; miracles and, 64–70; politics and, 227
Orwell, George, 35–36, 39
Other, 47, 111, 122, 165

Pearson, Heath, 137, 139n9
Pedersen, Morten, 66
Peirce, C. S., 9
Pentecostalism, 58, 63, 68, 72, 74
performative explanation, 16, 126, 137, 186, 196–97, 216–17
performative speech acts, 6, 168, 186
perspectivism, 56–57
Philippines, 54
philosophy, 46–47; belief and, 47; explanation and, 8–15, 31; language and, 25–26, 28–29, 31, 47; politics and, 226–27
physics, 13, 16, 126–30, 132, 137, 139n8
physiology, 127
Picasso, Pablo, 155
Pickles, Anthony, 138
Pina-Cabral, João de, 5
Polanyi, Karl, 122n3, 133
political advocacy: as iterative process, 216; on mindfulness-based interventions, 201–17
political economy, 105, 126
politics of engagement, 6–7
polythetic categories, 32–34, 36–37, 40
Popper, Karl, 25–28, 31, 34, 41
positivism, 4, 8, 10, 86
postcolonialism, 47–48, 106, 189
postmodernism, 47–48, 51, 106, 121
post-truth, 17, 164–65, 173–79
potlatch, 109, 138
Pouillon, Jean, 170
pragmatism, 13, 17, 96, 101n6, 139n7, 168–69, 202, 206–7, 212
prayer, 48–50, 52–53
precarity, 183, 189–90
Preece, Patricia, 150
prejudices, 189. See also racism
private life, 225–28
psychology: behavior and, 13; economics and, 127–29, 137, 139n9; fascism and, 36; individualism and, 105; metacognition and, 163, 171–72; mindfulness, 202, 205, 208, 210, 214; religion and, 48, 53, 71–72, 76–78; theories of mind, 53–60, 168
Pulkkinen, Tuija, 196
Putnam, Hilary, 39

qualitative thick description, 4, 95, 98. See also description
quality of life, 210
quantification, 217n3
quantitative data, 4, 48–49
Quetelet, Adlophe, 127
Quine, Willard, 46

race, 173, 234, 237–38
racism, 188, 189, 235. See also white supremacy
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred, 4, 11, 12, 20n6
Rajendram, Elanchelvan, 182
Rapport, Nigel, 2, 16–17, 19, 83–84, 145–61
rationality, 67, 148, 163, 167–71. See also irrationality
rationalizations, 1, 217n1
readers. See audiences
Reay, Marie Olive, 85
reciprocity, 108–9, 133
reductionism, 4, 13, 76–77
Reed, Adam, 2, 18, 19, 208, 215, 221–39
Reeves, Madeleine, 196
reflective belief, 170
reflective self-awareness, 206
reflexivity, 1, 3, 16, 19, 92, 101n4, 105
refugees. See asylum-seeking process
religion: evolutionary psychological explanations of, 71–72; monotheism, 170. See also belief; Christianity; God; miracles
reportage, 90, 229–30
resilience, 205, 209–12, 215
rhetoric, 175–79
Richards, Audrey, 31, 46, 133
right-wing politics, 222; alt-right, 163, 173–79; Far Right, 37, 235, 239. See also fascism
rigid designators, 39–40
risk, 125, 132; ethical, 68, 78
Robbins, Joel, 45, 64
robustness, 89
Romanticism, 232–33
Rorty, Richard, 46
Royal Academy, 147, 150
Royal Anthropological Institute, 6
Rozakou, Katerina, 193–97
Ruel, Malcolm, 170
Runciman, W. G., 13, 90, 228–33
Russia, 196
Ryle, Gilbert, 29

Sahlins, Marshall, 138
Salmon, Gildas, 2, 15, 104–22
Sarandon, Susan, 194
scales, 49–50
schizophrenia, 50–51
Schneider, Harold, 133
science, 4; economy of, 129; in nonmodern societies, 139n7; philosophy of (see philosophy)
secularism, 65, 67, 71
self-interest, 109–10, 118, 120, 132
Simmel, Georg, 134
Simon, Herbert, 135
Skalník, Peter, 129
Skinner, Quentin, 46
slowness, 95, 98
Smith, Adam, 126, 134
Smith, Rachel, 58, 59
Snell, Bruno, 57
social interaction, 146, 148; context and, 160–61
socialism, 38, 135, 136
social justice warriors (SJWs), 16–17, 163, 174–79
social life, 146, 148–49
social milieu, 146, 160–61
social order, 105–22; rules or collective norms, 104–5, 108–9, 122
social sciences: as political, 105; social mores and, 126, 137. See also anthropology; evolutionism, social; sociology
social structures, 148
social systems, 148–49
Society for Psychological Anthropology, 61n1
sociology: classical, 116; individualism and, 105–6; relationship to anthropology, 121
solidarity, modes of, 116, 118–20
Somalia, 194
South Pacific, 54–56. See also Trobriand Islanders
specialist knowledge, 119, 133, 137. See also expertise
Spencer, Baldwin, 129
Spencer, Herbert, v
Spencer, Stanley, 16–17, 145–47, 149–61; The Beatitudes of Love, 149–55, 159
Spinoza, Baruch, 66
spirituality, 57, 58–60, 155–59
Spivak, Gayatri, 233–34
Sri Lanka, 182
Staley, Richard, 2, 16, 125–38
stateless persons, 191–92. See also asylum-seeking process
Stengers, Isabelle, 100n1
Strathern, Marilyn, 84–86, 100n1, 101n3, 166
Strehlow, Carl, 129
structuralist explanation, 12, 106–22
subjectivism, 110, 122
Suits, Bernard, 30–31, 37, 41
supernatural, 51, 63. See also miracles
symbolic capital, 108–10, 113, 121
symbolic exchange, 146, 148–49
Syria, 194

Tambiah, S., 217n1
Tanzania, 183–84
Taves, Ann, 57
Taylor, Charles, 60, 67
territoriality, 182–84, 188, 190–92, 196–97
Thailand, 56, 58
theology, 64–65
theory, 83–84, 86; description and, 84; engagement and, 6; objectivism, 108; thoughts and, 165, 179
Thornton, Robert, 129
Ticktin, Miriam, 189–90, 192, 197
Tlingit, 138
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 111
Toren, Christina, 5
totalization, 99
trade, 129; Kula ring, 131, 136, 138
tradition, 46, 73, 112–13, 118, 120, 123n6, 126, 148–49, 160–61; religious, 170 (see also religion)
transformational analysis, 113–18
“tribal economy,” 131–32
Trobriand Islanders, 129–32, 138, 168
Trump, Donald, 36–37, 40, 164
truth: in asylum-seeking claims, 181–82; belief and, 54, 56; “twofold truth,” 116–17. See also post-truth
Turkey, 194
Tylor, E. B., 127
typification, 230–31, 234, 236

uncertainty, 11, 125, 132, 138n7, 177, 187, 221
UN Convention on Refugees (1951), 181, 187–88, 190, 192, 194–95. See also asylum-seeking process
understanding, 10, 14, 29, 104–5; description and, 41; reportage and, 229–30
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 181, 183, 187, 193–94
unificationist explanation, 12, 16, 18
Union Movement, 235
United Kingdom, 67; Mindful Nation UK (report), 18, 201–17
United States: fieldwork in, 57–59; religion in, 67
University of Chicago, 48
utilitarian logics, 109, 112, 202–4, 206, 215

values, 19, 203–4; economic, 203, 206, 215–17, 217n2; ethical, 202–4, 206–9, 212, 215–17, 217n2
Van Fraassen, Bas, 13
Vanuatu, 58–59
Vaughan-Williams, Nick, 187–89
Vineyard (charismatic Christian movement), 70–78
Viveiros de Castro, E., 100n2

Wacquant, Loïc, 31
Wallace, Anthony, 148
Walras, Leon, 126
Weber, Max, 4, 12, 105, 122n2
Weisman, Kara, 58
well-being, 210–12, 215
Werner, Oswald, 87, 89
Western societies: alt-right politics and, 173–74; economics, 130–32, 135; individualism, 106, 109, 112; miracles and, 66–67
Weston, Kath, 95
white supremacy, 173. See also racism
Williams, Bernard, 46
Williamson, Henry, 18, 221–39
Wilner, Isaiah, 138
Wimsatt, William, 89
witchcraft, 30, 40–41, 60, 122
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 14, 25–33, 37–39, 41, 46–47
Woolf, Virginia, 84
worldview: defined, 147–48; individual, 145–49, 158–61
World War, First, 36, 192, 223, 230–32, 234, 236
World War, Second, 39–40, 192, 223–24, 230–32. See also Nazi Germany
Wundt, Wilhelm, 128, 129

Yarrow, Thomas, 2, 15, 19, 81–100
Yiannopoulos, Milo, 174
Yucatec Mayans, 55
Yurchak, Alexei, 96–97

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