1st Edition
Anthropology and Responsibility
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: From "mafiacraft" and "witchcraft" to 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 study 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
Biography
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.
