https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters <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> Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth en-US Anthropology Matters 1758-6453 <span>Anthropology Matters uses the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Individual contributors retain non-exclusive rights to their published material and may reproduce their contribution in whole or in part and use it as the basis for future articles, book chapters, or other works.</span> https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/587 Ana Chiritoiu Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters 2024-03-24 2024-03-24 21 1 4 7 10.22582/am.v21i1.587 https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/546 <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> Trevor J. Durbin Copyright (c) 2022 Anthropology Matters 2023-03-20 2023-03-20 21 1 8 42 10.22582/am.v21i1.546 https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/585 Nora Coman Ruoyu Qu Sally Fitzpatrick Imke van Bentum Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters 2024-04-02 2024-04-02 21 1 43 50 10.22582/am.v21i1.585 https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/586 Felix Gaillinger Julia Böcker Michèle Kretschel-Kratz Sarah Mühlbacher Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters 2024-03-24 2024-03-24 21 1 51 57 10.22582/am.v21i1.586 https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/569 Renan Martins Pereira Copyright (c) 2022 Anthropology Matters 2022-10-12 2022-10-12 21 1 58 62 10.22582/am.v21i1.569