Who are 'We'? James W. Guest II

Who are 'We'? James W. Guest IIWho do we anthropologists think we are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological we has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. Drawing together both reflections and ethnographic case studies, it interrogates the criticalyet poorly studiedroles played by myriad

the police

postcolonial feminist and race theorist Gloria Anzaldúa

complicating her father’s plans and welcoming disaster into her life

Amir finds a rich tapestry of ideas about the comic

the interspecific transmission of pathogens

and al-Sayida Zeinab in Cairo

Common myths about low literacy

and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production

and wholly compassionate divine female

including Lithuanian

working habits

over a wide area