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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> [email protected] (Ana Chiritoiu and Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki) [email protected] (Eli Bugler) Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Editorial https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/587 Ana Chiritoiu, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/587 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Charisma Work, Microstates, and the Production of Authoritative Marine Space in Oceania 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 https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/546 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 ‘We don’t just live in a connected-up world—our discipline gives us tools to see it with’ https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/585 Nora Coman, Ruoyu Qu, Sally Fitzpatrick, Imke van Bentum Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/585 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Doing Kinship by Doing Law? https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/586 Felix Gaillinger, Julia Böcker, Michèle Kretschel-Kratz, Sarah Mühlbacher Copyright (c) 2024 Anthropology Matters https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/586 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Book review https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/569 Renan Martins Pereira Copyright (c) 2022 Anthropology Matters https://anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/569 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000