ISSUE 27.2 ESSAY SUPPLEMENTALS

CA's May Issue

From the Editors' Notes:

"This issue brings together two bundles of essays, one on Pentecostalism, the other on sovereignty. Unlikely bedfellows perhaps, religious and political sovereignties nevertheless often share a common conceptual vocabulary and are theorized together by scholars such as Schmitt, Agamben, Mbembe, and Hardt and Negri, among others.  Today, terms drawn from this “political theology” tradition – bare life, states of exception, necropolitics, the politics of life, biopower – and a host of hyphenated sovereignties (parastatal, partial, fractal, modular) have become part of the everyday anthropological lexicon.  What counts as life and a life worth living in the contemporary period? What does it mean when exceptional states have become the norm and citizenship has been reduced to bare life?  How have global humanitarianism, the medicalization of populations, bioterrorism, and increasing securitization transformed the relationship between states and citizens? In what sense have churches and NGOs taken on sovereign functions as states have withdrawn from the social field?  How to think “life” in an age when laissez-faire and the increasing disposability/superfluity of populations is accompanied by perpetual violence and increasing surveillance and intervention.  What of the Foucauldian passage from sovereignty to biopower today?"

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Notes
ANNE ALLISON AND CHARLES PIOT
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 191-192.
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PENTECOSTAL SOVEREIGNTIES

Magic With A Message: The Poetics of Christian Conjuring
GRAHAM JONES
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 193-214.
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Pentecostal Body Logics: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium

JOSH BRAHINSKY
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 215-238.
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Turning the Clock Back or Breaking with the Past?: Charismatic Temporality and Elite Politics in Côte d’Ivoire and the United States
MIKE McGOVERN
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 239-260.
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POLITICAL IMAGINARIES

More Alive than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cosmic Politics in Buddhist Siberia
ANYA BERNSTEIN
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 261-285.
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Afterlives: Humanitarian Histories and Critical Subjects in Mozambique
RAMAH McKAY
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 286-309.
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Scientific Sovereignty: How International Drug Donation Programs Reshape Health, Disease and the State
ARI SAMSKY
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 310-332.
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The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States
CARLO CADUFF
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 333-357.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility
PETER REDFIELD
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 358-382.
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The Headless Horseman of Central India: Sovereignty at Varying Thresholds of Life
BHRIGUPATI SINGH
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 383-407.
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BOOK REVIEWS

The Landscaping of Metaphor and Cultural Identity: Topographies of a Cornish Pastiche by Patrick Laviolette
Reviewed by TORI L. JENNINGS
Cultural Anthropology May 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2: 408-410.
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