HAU Submissions Guide

Please send HAU a book proposal rather than a complete, full-length manuscript. This will help us quickly assess your work’s fit with our organisation. Your proposal must include the following: 1. A covering letter that concisely gives key facts about your manuscript. This should be no more than three paragraphs and identify intended audience, explain …

An Outline of the Origins of Money

  Heinrich Schurtz (1863–1903) was a German ethnologist who was trained and taught at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of Altersklassen und Männerbünde, Urgeschichte der Kultur, and Das Afrikanische Gewerbe. Enrique Martino has a PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin and is a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the department …

Who Killed Jules Crevaux?

  Isabelle Combès is an associate researcher with the Institut Français d’Études Andines and coordinator of the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas of the History Museum of La Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Francis Grandhomme is a recognized authority on exploration of the Chaco. He is an associate …

How French Moderns Think

  “Keck’s book is a breath of fresh air. He is willing to explore the depth of the issues raised by Lévy-Bruhl in the rise of sociology and anthropology after the Dreyfus Affair and the struggle against French anti-Semitism, and to go beyond terminological allergy towards the concepts of “primitive” and “mentality.” The argument that …

How Is It Between Us?

“How Is It Between Us? provides a vital intervention into the limits of existing ethical theories through a careful rethinking of the conditions that have radically transformed our possibilities for existing in the contemporary world. This is without a doubt one of the most important books on ethics to have been published in the last …

Mitra-Varuna

  Stuart Elden is a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of several books, including Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (2009) and a four-volume intellectual history of Michel Foucault’s entire career (2016, 2017, 2021, 2023). Veena Das is a Research Professor of …

Property, Substance, and Effect

  “A timely gift. An exercise in both retrospection and imagining worlds and relations otherwise, the book is full of mind-bending reflections on how we might think with a world marked, as ever, by scale-scrambling change. These essays offer something sorely needed right now: a brilliant model of how to embrace and think with incommensurability and …

Sūq: Geertz on the Market

  “At a time when there is a desperate need for better understandings of the Muslim world, this essay by Clifford Geertz, brilliantly introduced by his fieldwork partner and colleague Lawrence Rosen, once again illustrates the importance of cultural anthropology in providing insights into different peoples and places. This is anthropology at its best.” — …

Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints

  “This collection is probably the most important collective effort to date to grapple with the contemporary significance of Fernando Ortiz’s work. The book inspects the biographical, structural and historical experiences that gave shape to Ortiz’s concept of ’transculturation,’ and then lets the concept loose on the two regions from which it sprung forth. It …

Ethics or the Right Thing?

  “In this excellent ethnography, Sylvia Tidey interrogates the widely prevalent assumption in global discourse about the state and development that corruption is always inimical to the “good,” thereby challenging dominant conceptions of good governance. Based on long-term research in Indonesia, she argues—and convincingly demonstrates—that corruption can, in practice, be deeply intertwined with care. More …