Description
This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of anthropology.
The authors examine the ways in which Strathern’s varied analytics facilitate the construction of alternative forms of anthropological thinking, and greater understanding of how knowledge practices of queer objects, subjects and relations operate and take effect.
Queering Knowledge offers an innovative collection of writing, bringing about queer and anthropological syntheses through Strathern’s oeuvre. It will be relevant to scholars from anthropology as well as a number of other disciplines, including gender, sexuality and queer studies.
*Winner of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume*
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Paul Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco
Chapter 1. E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo: Wild Gender
Chapter 2. Irene Peano: The (Im)possibilities of Transgression, or, Reflections on the Awkward Relation between Strathern and Queer Politics
Chapter 3. Antu Sorainen: Gay Back Alley Tolstoys and Inheritance Perspectives: Re-Imagining Kinship in Queer Margins
Chapter 4. Hadley Renkin: Partial Perversity and Perverse Partiality in Postsocialist Hungary
Chapter 5. Paul Boyce: Properties, Substance, Queer Affects: Ethnographic Perspective and HIV in India
Chapter 6. Hoon Song: Prefigured "Defection" in Korea
Chapter 7. Silvia Posocco: Postplurality: An Ethnographic Tableau
Chapter 8. Annelin Eriksen and Christine M. Jacobsen: On Feminist Critique and How the
Ontological Turn is Queering Anthropology
Chapter 9. Conceptuality in Relation: Sarah Franklin in conversation with Silvia Posocco, Paul Boyce, and E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo
Chapter 10. Henrietta L. Moore: How Exactly Are We Related?
Index
