The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in …

This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents
within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal …

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to
demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain …

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the
anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families …

What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it
contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on …

Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they,
like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist …

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling
with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of …

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human
subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming …

In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed
protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a “dream.” In no small part responding to a …

In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and
temporal dimensions of how India and “Indianness,” as objects of knowledge production and …