Hau Books is the book-publishing wing of the Society for Ethnographic Theory (SET), a learned society that also publishes the quarterly Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, founded in 2011 by Giovanni da Col. Hau Books, founded in 2015 by Giovanni da Col, is committed to publishing the most distinguished texts in classic and contemporary ethnographic theory. Its aim is to situate ethnography as the central heuristic of anthropology and to return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline. Our print editions are produced, distributed, and marketed by the University of Chicago Press, and digital versions are provided to university libraries through Knowledge Unlatched. Our open-access titles are available as pdfs in our catalogue. Convinced that traditional publishers have been neglecting works by anthropologists writing outside the Anglophone world, Hau Books has published a larger proportion of its titles in translation than any other publisher in anthropology and will soon be bringing out works translated from even more languages.
Director of Hau Books
Frédéric Keck, CNRS-Collège de France, Paris
Editorial Collective of Hau Books
Deborah Durham (Coordinating Editor)
Nora Scott
Casey High
Matthew Carey
Commissioning Editors
Steph Grohmann
Editorial Staff
Hannah Roberson, Managing Editor
Executive Publishing Board
The EPB takes decisions on editors recommendations, makes calls on funding allocation, and works on fundraising. This board include directors and two SET members acting as editorial advisors. It is distinguished from the Scientific Editorial Board which is consulted to receive an exclusively scientific opinion by both editors and the EPB.
SET Directors and Members
Scientific Editorial Board for Hau Books and Hau Journal
SET Bylaws
SET Privacy Policy
Open Access Policy
Besides publishing its titles in paperback and e-book formats, Hau Books offers all of its works as open access whenever possible. To do so, it registers its books under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licenses (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND). Some reprinted or translated works may not be not available as open access due to limitations of pre-existing copyrights and permissions from the original publishers.