Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of 'rupture'. Understood as radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the heart in some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of populist politics, the corollary impulse towards protest and even revolutionary change, as well as moves towards violence and terror, and the responses these moves elicit.

Introduction: Critical Ruptures Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer and Julia F. Sauma1. The Guillotine: Reflections on Violent Revolutionary Rupture Caroline Humphrey2. Rupture and Repair: A Museum of the Red Age Confronts Historical Nihilism Michael Rowlands, Stephan Feuchtwang and Lisheng Zhang3. Times Like the Present: Political Rupture and the Heat of the Moment Carol J. Greenhouse4. Inner Revolution: Reaction and Rupture in a Danish Lutheran Movement Morten Axel Pedersen5. Blurring Rupture: Frames of Conversion in Japanese Catholicism Tobia Farnetti6. Writing as Rupture: On Prophetic Invention in Central Africa Ramon Sarró7. Slow Rupture: The Art of Sneaking in an Occupied Forest Stine Krøijer 8. The Rhythm of Rupture: Attunement among Danish Jihadists Anja Kublitz9. Earthquake Citizens: Disaster and Aftermath Politics in India and Nepal Edward Simpson and Michele SerafiniAfterword: Some Reflections on Rupture Joel RobbinsIndex