Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland.

“The book offers both unsettling and highly inspirational reading material, especially forvacademics emerging from the world’s metropolises. It raises issues that are frequently overlooked and which represent unavoidable starting points for those doing anthropology today in the Antipodes and elsewhere.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“This book is a good and lively read, constructed so as to draw the readers into the discussion, to make us reach our own conclusions and also to do what most of us like best: to listen carefully and to draw conclusions from the stories told to us and for us.”  ·  Sites“A stimulating collection of interviews.…Its value is in the biographical glimpses, intellectual perspectives and methodological insights each offer into their work. The dialogical approach works well….[T]he volume illustrates the dynamic relationship between anthropological theorizing and political practice. Rather than celebrate anthropology, the book’s role is perhaps to champion iconoclasm and the unorthodox approaches that seem to characterize many anthropological careers.”  ·  David Mills, Oxford University

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Observing Anthropologists: Professional Knowledge, Practice and LivesCris Shore and Susanna TrnkaChapter 1. Suffering, Selfhood and Anthropological EncountersMichael JacksonChapter 2. Anthropology, Ontology and the Maori WorldAnne SalmondChapter 3. Building Bridges: Maori and Pakeha RelationsJoan MetgeChapter 4. 'Culture’, ‘Race’ and ‘Me’: living the anthropology of Indigenous AustraliansGillian CowlishawChapter 5. Finding One’s Way in Arnhem LandNicolas PetersonChapter 6. Art as Action: The YolnguHoward MorphyChapter 7. Rethinking Nature and NativenessDavid TriggerChapter 8. More than Local, Less than Global: Anthropology in the Contemporary WorldChristopher  PinneyChapter 9. Beyond Selling Out: Art, Tourism and Indigenous Self-RepresentationNelson GraburnChapter 10. Sovereign Individuals and the Ontology of SelfhoodNigel RapportChapter 11. Hidden Histories and Political TransformationsSusan WrightChapter 12. Gender Ideology, Property Relations and Melanesia: The Field of “M”Marilyn StrathernConclusion: Looking Ahead: Anthropology, Past Connections, Future DirectionsCris Shore and Susanna Trnka