Who are 'We'?

Liana Chua is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London. She works on Christianity, ethnic politics, resettlement, and development in Borneo, and on global orangutan conservation in “the Anthropocene.” 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.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Who Are 'We'?

Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur



PART I: REVISITING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'WE'



Chapter 1. Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African Engagements, 1919-1934

Isak Niehaus



Chapter 2. The Savage Noble: Alterity and Aristocracy in Anthropology

David Sneath



PART II: ALTERITY AND AFFINITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY'S GLOBAL LANDSCAPE



Chapter 3. The Anthropological Imaginarium: Crafting Alterity, the Self, and an Ethnographic Film in Southwest China

Katherine Swancutt



Chapter 4. The Risks of Affinity: Indigeneity and Indigenous Film Production in Bolivia

Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal



Chapter 5. Shifting the 'We' in Oceania: Anthropology and Pacific Islanders Revisited

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan



PART III: WHERE DO 'WE' GO FROM HERE?



Chapter 6. Crafting Anthropology Otherwise: Alterity, Affinity, and Performance

Gey Pin Ang and Caroline Gatt



Chapter 7. Towards an Ecumenical Anthropology

João de Pina-Cabral



Afterword

Mwenda Ntarangwi



Index