Samuele Poletti is a lecturer at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, as well as an associate researcher at the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies at the CNRS and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). © HAU Books 2026 ISBN: 9781914363566 [paperback] ISBN: 9781914363580 [open access PDF] 6″ x …
Maurizio Esposito La Rossa is an anthropologist, an associate professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris. Michael Lambek is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and a Canada Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of numerous books, including The …
After Siberian shamanism, the anthropologist Charles Stépanoff turns to hunting in rural France—and discovers common ground. Praise for the French edition: “Hunting provokes scandal. But what is it exactly that so disturbs us? The living world is both more brutal and more rich than we can measure—and perhaps more than we can bear. By showing …
Anthropology strives to be the science of human diversity, and yet vast archives of non-Anglophone scholarship remain sequestered behind prohibitive linguistic and financial barriers, turning the global discipline into an Anglo-centric silo. Hau Books is launching a focused initiative to help publish great works that were not originally written in English, through a critical framework …
“I was especially impressed and even delighted by the deep, rich ethnographic and linguistic knowledge presented in the book; collectively, the many years of dedicated fieldwork with Indigenous interlocutors is truly impressive.” — Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University “Southern Epistemologies is an excellent and dynamic collection of essays that call for more attention to alternate systems …
“This brave, witty, and vivid memoir of the journeys of a soul-searching anthropologist will appeal to all readers interested in how we find meaning in the map of memory as we look back on the intersection of our lives and the eruptions of history.” — Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks …
“Born from decades of ethnographic engagement and theorizing, this is a signature contribution to current efforts to rethink the philosophical foundations of our discipline. Its argument is that personhood is neither innate nor bestowed but the result of a capacity for transcendence that humans acquire from infancy as they are linguistically scaffolded and keyed into …
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“In this brilliant (and funny) ethnographic ode to Durkheim, anthropologist Aaron Ansell takes us to Brazil’s sertão, where he unpacks forms of patronage and understandings of corruption alive in the political system between 2003 and 2022, shedding light on the secrets of social life that our discipline holds dear. Fantastic insights are revealed about Brazil’s …
Extracts from the Introduction by Nathan Schlanger “There are indeed several substantial differences at play between Anglo-American ‘material culture studies’ and the French technologie culturelle or anthropologie des techniques, largely inspired by Leroi-Gourhan. A different emphasis on consumption on the one side and production on the other is accompanied, in the latter case, by a …
