Unsettling Queer Anthropology

“Unsettling Queer Anthropology offers a constellation of views of queer anthropology, from the mess, beauty, violences, and vitality that constitute it. The contributors engage throughout with queerness as object, method, mode of inquiry, ethos, and intellectual orientation. This book demonstrates that queer anthropology is always unsettling itself, always striving and gladly failing, always aspirationally queer.” - Naisargi N. Davé, author of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being

“If you think you know queer anthropology, think again: Margot Weiss and the contributors to this volume shake up, mess with, and reinvigorate conversations about the possibilities and limits of queer anthropology for the twenty-first century. Unsettling Queer Anthropology is a timely, vital, and very necessary read for anyone engaged in queer and/or anthropological studies.” - David A.B. Murray, author of Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

"This collection is a must-read for anyone working within—or considering working within—queer anthropology, engaging with queer theory, or exploring research questions related to queerness." - Susan Harper, Gender & Society

"Unsettling Queer Anthropology is a whirlwind of queer genealogies, orientations, and possibilities. The volume is profoundly vibrant and at times humorous, engaging with how anthropologists might queer the methods, theories, and orientations that guide us, as we continuously examine the discipline’s colonial legacies and contemporary ableism. . . . editor Margot Weiss and the contributing authors provide us with a very real sense that queer anthropology is wildly alive, still finding new untrodden paths, difficult terrains, and places to plant the seeds of a feral garden." - Marie Rask Bjerre Odgaard, Ethnos

"Not only is [Unsettling Queer Anthropology] disruptive and innovative but it is creative, inspiring, and a genuinely great read." - Maria Murad, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford

"A phenomenal edited volume that provides a springboard for both experienced and novice queer anthropologists alike to engage, imagine, and create otherwise horizons for the field." - Justin Perez, Journal of Anthropological Research