All Stories

  1. Spirits in the Museum

    Article • Material Religion, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  2. Unpacking Missionary Collections

    Article • Material Religion, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  3. The Spirit of Matter. Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

    Article • July 2023, Berghahn Journals

    Peter Pels

  4. Global Art in Local Art Worlds

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  5. Classification revisited: On time, methodology and position in decolonizing anthropology

    Article • Anthropological Theory, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Peter Pels

  6. Guidelines for anthropological research: Data management, ethics, and integrity

    Article • Ethnography, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Martijn de Koning, Peter Pels

  7. Guidelines for managing ethnographic data

    Article • Ethnography, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Peter Pels

  8. Ethnography, Intersubjective

    Article • September 2018, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  9. Problems with Data Management in Anthropology

    Article • Social Anthropology, July 2018, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  10. Magical Capitalism

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Pels

  11. Enchanted reason: Science fiction, print capitalism and the magic of anthropology

    Article • Anthropology Today, April 2017, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  12. Modern Times

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Peter Pels

  13. The Raw and the Overcooked: Some Comments on Stephan Palmié’s Cooking of History

    Article • Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, January 2015, Project Muse

    Peter Pels

  14. After objectivity

    Article • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, June 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Peter Pels

  15. A “Black Hole” of Imperial AmnesiaThe Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. By Partha Chatterjee. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

    Article • Current Anthropology, October 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Peter Pels

  16. Amazing Stories How Science Fiction Sacralizes the Secular

    Article • November 2012, Fordham University Press

    Peter Pels

  17. Magical Things: on Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Peter Pels

  18. The Modern Fear of Matter: Reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian Science

    Article • September 2012, Fordham University Press

    Peter Pels

  19. Global ‘experts’ and ‘African’ minds: Tanganyika anthropology as public and secret service, 1925-61

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, November 2011, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  20. Readings in modernity in Africa edited by Geschiere, Peter, Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels

    Article • Social Anthropology, November 2010, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  21. What has anthropology learned from the anthropology of colonialism?

    Article • Social Anthropology, December 2008, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  22. Christian fears of materialism in Victorian secular science

    Article • Material Religion, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  23. Editorial

    Article • Social Anthropology, January 2007, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  24. Special section: Anthropology after Darwin

    Article • Social Anthropology, January 2007, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  25. Editorial

    Article • Social Anthropology, June 2004, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  26. Editorial

    Article • Social Anthropology, June 2003, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  27. Creolisation in Secret: The Birth of Nationalism in Late Colonial Uluguru, Tanzania

    Article • Africa, February 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  28. On Reflections on Darkness in El Dorado

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Peter Pels

  29. Creolisation in Secret the Birth of Nationalism in Late Colonial Uluguru, Tanzania

    Article • Africa, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  30. East African Expressions of Christianity (review)

    Article • Africa Today, January 2002, Indiana University Press

    Peter Pels

  31. CORRESPONDENCE

    Article • Anthropology News, March 2001, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  32. East African Expressions of Christianity (review)

    Article • Africa Today, January 2000, Indiana University Press

    Peter Pels

  33. Professions of Duplexity

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Peter Pels

  34. Colonial Subjects

    Article • January 1999, University of Michigan Library

    Peter Pels

  35. The Magic of Africa: Reflections on a Western Commonplace

    Article • African Studies Review, December 1998, JSTOR

    Peter Pels

  36. The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 1997, Annual Reviews

    Peter Pels

  37. the pidginization of Luguru politics: administrative ethnography and the paradoxes of indirect rule

    Article • American Ethnologist, November 1996, Wiley

    Peter Pels

  38. Kizungu Rhythms: Luguru Christianity as Ngoma

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, May 1996, JSTOR

    Peter Pels

  39. Visions of Anthropology

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  40. Kizungu Rhythms: Luguru Christianity as Ngoma1

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, January 1996, Brill

    Peter Pels

  41. Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice1

    Article • History and Anthropology, December 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  42. The construction of ethnographic occasions in late colonial Uluguru1

    Article • History and Anthropology, December 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Pels

  43. 'All Good Men'. The Development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1905-1967

    Article • African Studies Review, September 1994, JSTOR

    Peter Pels

  44. Review article : Contradiction and irony in the ethnography of missions, or :How Did Bishop Arkfeld Get His Feathered Mitre ?

    Article • Critique of Anthropology, July 1990, SAGE Publications

    Peter Pels

  45. Critique and Reflexivity in Anthropology

    Article • Critique of Anthropology, December 1989, SAGE Publications

    Peter Pels

  46. Africa Christo!

    Article • Critique of Anthropology, April 1989, SAGE Publications

    Peter Pels

  47. Using “Magic” to Think from the Material: Tracing Distributed Agency, Revelation, and Concealment at Çatalhöyük

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  48. History houses

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  49. Temporalities of “religion” at Çatalhöyük

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Peter Pels

  50. "WO'S KEINE ZEHN GEBOTE GIBT" Eine Revision des Verständnisses von Ethik anlässtich des Darkness-in-El-Dorado-Skandals

    Article • Transcript Verlag

    Peter Pels