Of Souls and Spider Monkeys
(2024)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (in press). Of Souls and Spider Monkeys. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory,
Outputs (20)
Ethnographies of interest: between enthusiasm and the instrumental (2024)
Journal Article
Candea, M., Heywood, P., Reed, A., & Yarrow, T. (in press). Ethnographies of interest: between enthusiasm and the instrumental. Current Anthropology,Anthropologists and social theorists have written extensively about the ways in which economic and political interests lead people to act in social life. Less scholarly attention has been paid, however, to what people find ‘interesting’, in the sense... Read More about Ethnographies of interest: between enthusiasm and the instrumental.
A Thought Experiment in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2023). A Thought Experiment in the Wild. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 67(3), 118-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670311This paper aims to complicate the opposition between ‘thick description’ and ‘thin’ thought experiments by constructing a thought experiment of its own. It compares the use of examples – thick and thin – in the work of Malinowski and Ludwig Wittgenst... Read More about A Thought Experiment in the Wild.
Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas (2023)
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Heywood, P., & Reed, A. (2023). Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 67(3), 45-57. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670303This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualisation and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of... Read More about Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas.
Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini” (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2023). Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”. American Anthropologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13850Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that... Read More about Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”.
Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism (2021)
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Heywood, P. (2022). Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64(1), 91-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417521000402This paper examines the ways in which ‘ordinariness’ can come to be exemplified as a virtue. It does so by comparing the status of ordinariness in historical and present-day Predappio, the village in which Mussolini was born and is buried. It describ... Read More about Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism.
Freedom of Speech (2021)
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Heywood, P., Candea, M., Wright, F., & Fedirko, T. (2021). Freedom of Speech. Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology, https://doi.org/10.29164/21speech
“All the Difference in the World”: The Nature of Difference and Different Natures (2020)
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Heywood, P. (2020). “All the Difference in the World”: The Nature of Difference and Different Natures. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393120917947
Fascism, uncensored (2019)
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Heywood, P. (2019). Fascism, uncensored. Terrain, https://doi.org/10.4000/terrain.18955
Making Difference: Queer Activism and Anthropological Theory (2018)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2018). Making Difference: Queer Activism and Anthropological Theory. Current Anthropology, 59(3), https://doi.org/10.1086/697946
The Ontological Turn (2017)
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Heywood, P. (2017). The Ontological Turn. Cambridge encyclopedia of anthropology, https://doi.org/10.29164/17ontology
Comment on Interpreting Strathern's ‘unconscious’ critique of ontology (2017)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2017). Comment on Interpreting Strathern's ‘unconscious’ critique of ontology. Social Anthropology, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12368
Freedom in the code: The anthropology of (double) morality (2015)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2015). Freedom in the code: The anthropology of (double) morality. Anthropological Theory, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499614568498
Equivocal locations: being ‘red’ in ‘Red Bologna’ (2015)
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Heywood, P. (2015). Equivocal locations: being ‘red’ in ‘Red Bologna’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12291
Agreeing to disagree: LGBTQ Activism and the Church in Italy (2015)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2015). Agreeing to disagree: LGBTQ Activism and the Church in Italy. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.018
Neoliberal nation? Mobbing and morality in Italy (2014)
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Heywood, P. (2014). Neoliberal nation? Mobbing and morality in Italy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12085
One more turn and you're there (2013)
Journal Article
Heywood, P., & Laidlaw, J. (2013). One more turn and you're there. Anthropology of this century,
Anthropology and What There Is: Reflections on 'Ontology' (2012)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2012). Anthropology and What There Is: Reflections on 'Ontology'. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2012.300112
Topographies of love: two discourses on the Russian mail-order bride industry (2009)
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Heywood, P. (2009). Topographies of love: two discourses on the Russian mail-order bride industry. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 29, 26-45
The two burials of Aldo Moro: sovereignty and governmentality in the anni di piombo (2009)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2009). The two burials of Aldo Moro: sovereignty and governmentality in the anni di piombo. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 29, 1-29