Anthropos and the Material

“Featuring outstanding, rich, and conceptually and ethnographically inspiring work, Anthropos and the Material is a welcome and important contribution to the field. This excellent collection will be of interest to anthropologists and scholars in the humanities and social sciences working on materiality, posthumanism, multispecies ethnography, space, capitalism, and the Anthropocene.” - Gastón R. Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction

“If you want to understand the politics of vibrant matter without being absorbed into the very circumstances you struggle against, look to ethnography. That's the invigorating message Anthropos and the Material brings to an era of climate change and cryptocurrencies, as humans increasingly confront their entanglements—destructive, creative, indifferent—with the materialities of a world that exceeds them. An inspiring example of what anthropology can be, or become, once liberal humanism has been well and truly displaced.” - Kath Weston, author of Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

“This book underscores that the Anthropocene poses challenges that far exceed disciplinary or methodological boundaries, just as they exceed the bounds of the anthropos or the material. The contributors take us far in imagining analytical frameworks, sensibilities, and political possibilities that are ‘more than human’ at a time when anthropocentrism is confronting the consequences of its hubris.” - Nidhi Subramanyam, Geographical Review