List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Who Are 'We'?
Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur

PART I: REVISITING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'WE'

Chapter 1. Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African Engagements, 1919-1934
Isak Niehaus

Chapter 2. The Savage Noble: Alterity and Aristocracy in Anthropology
David Sneath

PART II: ALTERITY AND AFFINITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY'S GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

Chapter 3. The Anthropological Imaginarium: Crafting Alterity, the Self, and an Ethnographic Film in Southwest China
Katherine Swancutt

Chapter 4. The Risks of Affinity: Indigeneity and Indigenous Film Production in Bolivia
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

Chapter 5. Shifting the 'We' in Oceania: Anthropology and Pacific Islanders Revisited
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

PART III: WHERE DO 'WE' GO FROM HERE?

Chapter 6. Crafting Anthropology Otherwise: Alterity, Affinity, and Performance
Gey Pin Ang and Caroline Gatt

Chapter 7. Towards an Ecumenical Anthropology
João de Pina-Cabral

Afterword
Mwenda Ntarangwi

Index

Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
Afterword by Mwenda Ntarangwi

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“Who Are ‘We’? does not provide a response to its own title. Rather, it pulls some of the historical, epistemic and political threads that have come to produce the intricate ‘we’ that we think we are… Importantly, this book is not a guide through pre‐existing affinities and alterities, but an invitation to imagine new ways of reconnecting people – anthropologists and those who are not – in ever productive ways.” • Social Anthropology

“[This volume] raises awareness about existing inequalities in knowledge production, and at the same time contributes to the theoretical discussions on knowledge production in anthropology.” • Michal Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University

Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological “we” has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. Drawing together both reflections and ethnographic case studies, it interrogates the critical—yet poorly studied—roles played by myriad anthropological “we” ss in generating and influencing anthropological theory, method, and analysis. In the process, new spaces are opened for reimagining who “we” are – and what “we,” and indeed anthropology, could become.

Liana Chua is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London. She works on Christianity, ethnic politics, resettlement, and development in Borneo, and on global orangutan conservation in “the Anthropocene.” Her publications include The Christianity of Culture (Palgrave, 2012) and co-edited volumes on evidence, power in Southeast Asia, and Alfred Gell’s theory of art.

Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on multispecies ethnography, climate change, and human-big cat conflict in the Anthropocene. She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (Cambridge, 2016) and the co-editor of Remaking the Public Good: A New Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2015).

Series: Volume 34, Methodology & History in Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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LC: GN495.6 .W5 2018

BL: DRT ELD.DS.305592

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC019000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Methodology

BIC: JHM Anthropology

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Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
Afterword by Mwenda Ntarangwi

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Subject: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
Afterword by Mwenda Ntarangwi