After Difference

Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor at Durham University.

“The book offers a fascinating and insightful discussion on how queer activism’s anti-identitarian character itself constitutes a form of identity, a way for activists to agree on something…It is a valuable and provocative contribution to anthropology which raises important challenges for the discipline and for researchers, principally as regards the way in which they conceive of identity and difference both intellectually and in relation to their objects of research.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“After Difference situates itself firmly in the current debate on the nature of anthropological theory, providing a lucid critique of different theoretical paradigms and advancing a clear argument against conflating anthropological theory and ethnography.” • Modern Italian Studies“[This book] serves as an argument for the explicit recognition of the multiplicity of potential differences between anthropology and ethnography and explains how these can exist in tandem, while some equivocal notion of anthropology endures.” • Anthropology News“Genuinely remarkable… There’s almost nothing quite this lucidly philosophical, conceptually and politically provocative, and deeply ethnographic in recent work… An intellectual treat with few competitors.” · Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IChapter 1. Equivocal LocationsChapter 2. The Anthropology of (Double) MoralityPART IIChapter 3. Agreeing to DisagreeChapter 4. Different DifferencesPART IIIChapter 5. Why Will Recursivity Run Out of Steam?Chapter 6. Making DifferenceConclusionReferencesIndex