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.

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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. Kawika 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

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).