The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Lutheran Airplanes

Handman, Courtney

doi:10.1086/701049

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“…I will refer to this as the value-transformations approach. This is not a self-consciously elaborated approach, and the examples I use- Handman (2019) and Daswani (2016)-do not set out to theorize values explicitly in contrast to the value-structures approach. But I have found it productive to use this work, for my own purposes, as an alternative approach.…”

Section: Value Transformationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This work draws our attention to how responsibilities and their consequences may be understood to be distributed across human and non-human social actors in different Christian contexts. I think Handman's (2019) work on Lutheran airplanes relates broadly to the third grouping, as it attends to how language, material objects, and power come together to produce values. The persons entangled in these processes might be analyzed as being subjected to and subjects of the production of values and persons at the same time.…”

Section: Value Transformationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Handman (2019) describes the adoption of airplanes by German Lutheran missionaries in colonial New Guinea. Handman (1977: 39) suggests that the missionaries’ adoption of airplanes forms part of a sequence of “spatiotemporal transformations,” a term she borrows from Nancy Munn.…”

Section: The Movements Of Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eriksen (2012) and Haynes (2017) have used a similar analytical lens on Pentecostal churches in Vanuatu and Zambia. A different approach is offered by Daswani (2016) and Handman (2019), who have examined how value is produced by the actions of a Pentecostal prophet in Ghana and a Lutheran mission in colonial New Guinea. While these authors have not explicitly set their work in relation to each other, I would like in this article to bring Robbins, Eriksen, and Haynes’ value-structures approach and Daswani and Handman's value-transformations approach into the same frame, to ask whether and how to bridge these diverging anthropological understandings of ethical value/s in Christian communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement

Hovland

2021

Anthropological Theory

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How can anthropologists describe ethical values—that is, what emerges as important—in the social, material worlds of Christianity? This article considers the question by working along interfaces. The first part of the article discusses two diverging approaches to values in the anthropology of Christianity (realizing values and producing values) and situates these in relation to three groupings in the anthropology of ethics and morality (deontological ethics, first-person virtue ethics, and poststructuralist virtue ethics). The second part of the article follows one value—the value of movement—in a historical example: the writings of a group of Christian women in 1880s and 1890s Norway. I argue that ethical values move in multiple ways through this social world: people realize values, people produce values and people work on values.

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Section: Value Transformationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Value Transformationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Movements Of Valuesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Hovland

2021

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“…Infrastructure also involves thinking through the mechanisms that enable wider‐scale circulation. Drawing inspiration from a Munn article on spacetime and the transformation of canoes, Handman (2019) looks to open new paths in the study of Christian missionizing as well as of textual circulation by considering how Lutherans saw themselves expand their field by using airplanes. Handman's approach is also central to her review article (Handman 2018) on the language of evangelism, which argues for a Christian culture of circulation and more attention to how (re)entextualization, translation, and materiality produce Christian publics.…”

Section: Uncertain Remediations: Communicative Technologies and Inframentioning

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Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 2019

Paz

2020

American Anthropologist

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This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews published work in this field in three parts: (1) the semiotic interplay of certainty and uncertainty, especially in relation to evidence and agency; (2) the remediation of semiosis across media technologies and infrastructures; and (3) the semiosis of the state‐citizen divide. More generally, this review considers how linguistic/semiotic anthropologists are renewing foundational concepts and approaches at the same time as they express a strong desire to turn their expertise into a more public form of political agency. This process of renewal is leading to the emergence of new agendas. [language, semiotics, uncertainty, media, state]

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Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa

Hardin

2023

American Anthropologist

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This article employs Oceanic epistemological theories to explore the body as a site of knowledge production among Samoan Pentecostal women as they dance in a church‐sponsored Zumba session, tracking foods, words, and feelings: I call these moving materialities. In their work together, these women contextualized health, sickness, and weight as generated from the circulation of these kinds of moving materialities. Their work theorizing health through material change is quite different from those imagined and circulated in the literatures on diabetes and obesity. The article orients critical studies of health toward an interrogation of the dynamic qualities of materiality, including both the moving body and materials that move between or within bodies. By expanding what might be considered material and movement in the context of health, this article offers an alternative to theories of metabolism that have come to dominate how we understand the body in terms energy expenditure. Ultimately, this approach calls for anthropologists to consider the circumstances in which theory is understood to be “culturally specific” or “generalizable.”

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The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Lutheran Airplanes

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement

Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement

Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 2019

Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa

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