Who are 'We'?

Liana Chua is Tunku Abdul Rahman University Associate Professor in Malay World Studies at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her publications include The Christianity of Culture (Palgrave, 2012) and co-edited volumes on evidence, power in Southeast Asia and Alfred Gell’s theory of art.

“Who Are ‘We’? does not provide a response to its own title. Rather, it pulls some of the historical, epistemic and political threads that have come to produce the intricate ‘we’ that we think we are… Importantly, this book is not a guide through pre‐existing affinities and alterities, but an invitation to imagine new ways of reconnecting people – anthropologists and those who are not – in ever productive ways.” • Social Anthropology“[This volume] raises awareness about existing inequalities in knowledge production, and at the same time contributes to the theoretical discussions on knowledge production in anthropology.” • Michal Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Who Are 'We'?Liana Chua and Nayanika MathurPART I: REVISITING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'WE'Chapter 1. Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African Engagements, 1919-1934Isak NiehausChapter 2. The Savage Noble: Alterity and Aristocracy in AnthropologyDavid SneathPART II: ALTERITY AND AFFINITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY'S GLOBAL LANDSCAPEChapter 3. The Anthropological Imaginarium: Crafting Alterity, the Self, and an Ethnographic Film in Southwest ChinaKatherine SwancuttChapter 4. The Risks of Affinity: Indigeneity and Indigenous Film Production in BoliviaGabriela Zamorano VillarrealChapter 5. Shifting the 'We' in Oceania: Anthropology and Pacific Islanders RevisitedTy P. Kāwika TenganPART III: WHERE DO 'WE' GO FROM HERE?Chapter 6. Crafting Anthropology Otherwise: Alterity, Affinity, and PerformanceGey Pin Ang and Caroline GattChapter 7. Towards an Ecumenical AnthropologyJoão de Pina-CabralAfterwordMwenda NtarangwiIndex