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In the Guyanese Amazon, Waiwai memory is made through the substances and associated sentiments that accrue in the body. Remembering and forgetting are morally weighted actions that transform the dispositions of others, enabling desired feelings of contentment or anger and ill will. Waiwai perspectives on the stakes of being or not being in the thoughts of others matter for their relations with the state: Waiwai people say that, in the past, their households were split between Guyana and Brazil because the Guyanese government forgot about them, while in the present, Waiwai people work to make Guyanese officials remember them, and this constitutes a form of political practice. Whereas anthropological accounts of the politics of memory emphasize how the past is operationalized in the present, Waiwai discussions of being forgotten and being remembered demonstrate the significance of affective, rather than representational, forms of memory for the political practices of indigenous‐state relations. [memory, morality, politics, affect, Waiwai, Guyana, Amazonia] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses on the restructuring of social categories of the Konso community in Ethiopia following the fall of the socialist government. For generations, the Konso community is segregated into two social classes, the Xauta, the workers, and the Etenta, the elders. After the fall of socialism a reconfiguration of hereditary status groups took place through interaction with new information and the changes in political and economic situations.