The HAU Essays series revives a form that academic publishing has largely allowed to lapse. Longer than a journal article, shorter than a full monograph, the ethnographic essay once had a natural home in the occasional publications of research institutes and university departments. It was the form in which some of the most generative anthropological thinking was first worked out. HAU Essays restores it as a serious publication format: concentrated, committed to a single argument or problem, and willing to follow that argument wherever the ethnography leads. The series also gathers compilations of essays, where a sequence of pieces builds a sustained argument across a longer book, as in On Kings and The Relative Native. We welcome proposals for single essays in the range of 30,000–45,000 words. Send proposals to books@hausociety.org.
