We have always written against the grain, which is the point of critique … of any weight - Jean Comaroff

I wrote an essay some years back in which I made the argument that anthropology is not defined by its content but by its methodological curiosity, by defamiliarization of the world.

But not only white people should write about whites, or only men about men, or Navajos about the Navajo, or any human subjects only about themselves and their experiences of the world.

But beneath the phenomenon lie economic and political forces that have to do with the transformative history of the present