Anthropology and Responsibility

Melissa Demian is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Mattia Fumanti is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Introduction: Anthropology and responsibility

Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris

1 Edgy imaginaries: "Ghost’"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a plantation landscape

Liana Chua

2 The responsibility to consume: Excessive ‘environmentourism’ against rhinoceros extinction in South Africa

Stasja Koot

3 Responsibility versus responsibilization: Mafiacraft, witchcraft and the rise of conspiracy thinking today

Peter Geschiere

4. In the wake of disenchantment: Silence and the limits of ethnographic attentiveness

Yana Stainova

5 The vulnerability vortex: Health, exclusion, and social responsibility

David Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann

6 Keeping things under control: Responsibilities towards things, homes, people in hoarding disorder

Rebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt

7 Racialized positionalities: Ethnographic responsibility and the anthropology of racism and white supremacy

Sofía Ugarte

8 Of Calcutta, death and the South: Juxtaposing three Calcuttas/Kolkatas

Debarun Sarkar

9 The countess’ diaries and taonga Māori: Twenty-first century collaborations around nineteenth century collecting

Kirsty Kernohan

10 Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment"

Joel White