Unsettling Queer Anthropology

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. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices <i>Unsettling Queer Anthropology</i> advances a vision of queer anthropology grounded in decolonial abolitionist Black feminist transnational postcolonial Indigenous and queer of color approaches. Critically assessing both anthropology's queer innovations and its colonialist legacies contributors highlight decades of work in queer anthropology; challenge the boundaries of anthropology's traditional methodologies forms and objects of study; and forge a critical queer of color decolonizing queer anthropology that unsettles anthropology's normative epistemologies. At a moment of revitalized calls to reckon with the white supremacist and settler colonial logics that continue to shape anthropology this volume advances an anthropology accountable to the vitality of queer and trans life.<br><br>Contributors. Jafari Sinclair Allen Tom Boellstorff Erin L. Durban Elijah Adiv Edelman Lyndon K. Gill K. Marshall Green Brian A. Horton Nikki Lane Martin F. Manalansan IV Shaka McGlotten Scott L. Morgensen Kwame Otu Juno Salazar Parreñas Lucinda Ramberg Sima Shakhsari Savannah Shange Anne Spice Margot Weiss Ara Wilson