Translating Worlds, Defending Land

Casey High is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Victims and Warriors: Violence, History and Memory in Amazonia (2015).

"Casey High offers us a brilliant ethnography in the form of fluid and intimate writing, which makes the book a page turner. What we see in these pages is the inauguration of a new line of anthropological reflection, in which collaboration between anthropologists and Indigenous people ceases to be a simple method and becomes the very object of analysis."—Aparecida Vilaça, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "In this thought-provoking meditation on the dynamics of collaboration, Casey High explores what it means for anthropology and anthropologists when our epistemic partners start doing ethnography their own way, for their own ends."—Stuart Kirsch, University of Michigan "Narrating in Waorani lands (that are also Ecuadorian), this strong and delicate ethnography also narrates us. Relentlessly written from a 'complex we' the stories it tells make it clear that 'we' have interlocutors and are interlocutors and that therefore, 'we' tell stories about 'them' that are also about 'us'... ethnographic relations as moebius strip!"—Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis

• List of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on OrthographyIntroduction: Sharing Uncommon Ground1. Collaborations in an Amazonian Contemporary2. Speaking Differently3. Translating Environmental Politics4. COP26 and the Limits of Collaboration5. How Anthropologists LieConclusion: Unfinished BusinessBetween Hope and Apocalypse: An EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex