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A timely encounter and a loss

We take the unprecedented step of publishing a review by Nancy Munn alongside Jens Kjaerulff ’s article, for which it was written. We recognize the remarkable timing of a particular conjuncture of events—Nancy’s passing some three months after submitting her review—and want to share with our readers a model of respectful and enabling intellectual engagement between reviewer and author. On January 20, 2020, while Jens Kjaerulff ’s article was in production, Nancy Munn died in a Chicago hospital. I had asked her to review Kjaerulff ’s article, “Situating Time: New Technologies at Work, a Perspective from Alfred Gell’s Oeuvre,” a few months back. She agreed to do so, despite the pressure she felt to complete her own book. What arrived via email in late October 2019—accompanied by a request to have her “name as the source of this report made available to the author,” if that was possible—were six dense, singlespaced pages of analysis that made the HAU editorial collective unanimously express the desire to publish her review along with the article. I emailed Nancy for permission to do so, but she was already ill and in hospital and could not respond. I amgrateful toAnne Chien, Jean Comaroff, Judith Farquhar, Jennifer Cole, and Nancy’s friends and colleagues for caring and accompanying her, and for permission to publish her piece, one of the last things she wrote. Having entered an intellectual dialogue with an anonymous author through the double-blind peer review process, Nancy Munn, this exemplary scholar’s scholar, delved deeply not only into the author’s analysis of ethnographic case material and theoretical sources—reprising in particular Gell’s work down to verse, chapter, and page—but also into the sources of Kjaerulff ’s sources