https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/issue/feedAnthropology Matters2024-03-24T20:04:34+00:00Ana Chiritoiu and Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki[email protected]Open Journal Systems<p>Anthropology Matters is the official postgraduate network of the <a href="https://theasa.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (the ASA)</a>, including the open-access peer-reviewed Anthropology Matters Journal and an email list alerting members to jobs, grants, conferences, and other relevant issues. <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">More information about the email list and how to subscribe is available here. </a></p> <div class="responsive_element"> <p><a href="https://theasa.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="full" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/ASAweb.jpg" alt="ASA" /></a> Anthropology Matters Journal is supported by the <a href="https://theasa.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASA</a> and published by the <a href="https://theasa.org/networks/postgraduate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASA's Postgraduate Network.</a></p> </div> <div class="logos"><a href="https://www.qub.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/uni_belfast.png" alt="University of Belfast" /></a> <a href="https://www.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/uni_mcr.png" alt="University of Manchester" /></a> <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/uni_oxf.png" alt="University of Oxford" /></a> <a href="https://therai.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive portr" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/rai.png" alt="Royal Anthropological Institute" /></a> <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive portr" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/ucl.png" alt="University College London" /></a> <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="responsive portr" src="https://www.anthropologymatters.com/public/journals/1/lse.png" alt="London School of Economics" /></a></div>https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/587Editorial2024-03-24T20:04:34+00:00Ana Chiritoiu[email protected]Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki[email protected]2024-03-24T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Mattershttps://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/546Charisma Work, Microstates, and the Production of Authoritative Marine Space in Oceania2020-09-07T11:48:15+00:00Trevor J. Durbin[email protected]<p>I draw on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Oceania to formulate the concept of ‘charisma work’, a type of labour in which the extraordinariness of individuals and their visions for the world are (re)produced and promoted to help legitimise rational-legal power. I focus on how two Pacific Island microstates, the Cook Islands and the Republic of Kiribati, work with Conservation International, an international environmental NGO, to build networks of charismatic people in support of the world’s largest marine protected areas. I argue that an aim of charisma work in this case is to attract support and resources to meet the objectives of Pacific Island microstates caught in a double bind of balancing the right to internal sovereignty and the demands of extra-national partners and interests. Building on the work of Paul Ricoeur, I propose that rational-legal systems utilise charismatic processes to support authoritative claims while, at the same time, obscuring the egalitarian origins of institutional legitimacy.</p>2023-03-20T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 Anthropology Mattershttps://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/585‘We don’t just live in a connected-up world—our discipline gives us tools to see it with’ 2024-03-24T19:31:39+00:00Nora Coman[email protected]Ruoyu Qu[email protected]Sally Fitzpatrick[email protected]Imke van Bentum[email protected]2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Mattershttps://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/586Doing Kinship by Doing Law?2024-03-24T19:45:39+00:00Felix Gaillinger[email protected]Julia Böcker[email protected]Michèle Kretschel-Kratz[email protected]Sarah Mühlbacher[email protected]2024-03-24T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Mattershttps://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/569Book review2021-03-15T13:48:56+00:00Renan Martins Pereira[email protected]2022-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 Anthropology Matters