Weiss Unsettling Queer Anthropology

Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5940-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Margot

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. you’re invited: a playlist for errant ethnographers / Savannah Shange ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures / Margot Weiss 1
Part I. Foundations: Queer Anthropology’s Contested Geologies
1. The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology / Jafari Sinclaire Allen
2. Queer Theories from Somewhere: Situated Knowledges and Other Queer Empiricisms / Margot Weiss 53
3. Intimate Methods: Reflections of Racial and Colonial Legacies within Sexual Social Science / Scott L. Morgensen 77
Part II. Reorientations: Queering the Anthropological Canon
4. Kinship and Kinmaking Otherwise / Lucinda Ramberg 99
5. Pronoun Trouble: Notes on Radical Gender Inclusion in English / Tom Boellstorff 116
6. Stylization in the Flesh: Queer Anthropology and Performance / Brian A. Horton 133
7. Worldly Power and Local Alterity: Transnational Queer Anthropology / Ara Wilson 152
8. Queer States: Geopolitics and Queer Anthropology / Sima Shakhsari 169
Part III. Departures: Reworlding Queer Anthropology
9. Black Queer Anthropology Roundtable: Speculations on Activating Ethnographic Practice in and for Community / Shaka McGlotten and Lyndon Gill, Marshall Green, Nikki Lane, and Kwame Otu 191
10. The Subject of Trans Lives and Vitalities: Queer and Trans Anthropological Object-Making / Elijah Adiv Edelman 209
11. Doing It Together: A Queer Case for Cripping Ethnography / Erin L. Durban 227
12. When Our Tulips Speak Together: More-Than-Human Queer Natures / Juna Salizar Parreñas 247
13. Queer (Re)generations: Disrupting Apocalypse Time / Anne Spice 266
14. The Queer Endotic: Experiments on the Infra-ordinary (Or seeds for a worlding) / Martin F. Manalansan IV 283
Contributors 299
Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Margot Weiss is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University and the author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality.