The HAU Monographs series publishes outstanding single-author works at the intersection of sustained fieldwork and original theory. The series holds together two modes that are sometimes treated as distinct: the short theoretical monograph that tests or develops a concept through a specific case, and the full ethnographic study that earns its theoretical claims through the density of its material. Both proceed from the same conviction — that the analytical move from ethnography to theory remains the most productive one available to anthropology. The series honours the tradition Malinowski named ethnographic theory while remaining open to the forms it is still taking.
