Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze - (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies) by Barbara Glowczewski (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, she delivers a radical anthropology.

Book Synopsis

This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. She shows that the ways Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with Guattarian and Deleuzian concepts. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology.

From the Back Cover

A collection of Barbara Glowczewski's 40 years of Aboriginal Australian research in conversation with Guattari and Deleuze This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with Warlpiri people since 1979. She shows how the ways in which Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with some of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts. Radical alterity is not about exoticism and exclusion but about imagining how to weave different worlds in respect of their singularities always in becoming, how to recreate outsideness in our minds. This is indigenising anthropology. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology which will open new avenues for research on environmental and social justice based on the value of difference and creative resistance. Barbara Glowczewski is an anthropologist and a professorial researcher at the French National Scientific Research Center, CNRS. She is the author of Desert Dreamers (Univocal/University of Minnesota Press) and many other books as well as innovative multimedia work.

Review Quotes

Indigenising Anthropology is not merely a collection of essays spanning the storied career of Barbara Glowczewski. It is a homage to a philosophical space that grew between Glowczewski's long and intimate intellectual relationship with Felix Guattari and her equally committed conceptual dialogue with Indigenous Australians. Glowczewski's thoughts glow with a scholarly originality and political potentiality desperately needed today.--Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University

These fascinating essays retrace an engagement over forty years with Anthropology, Australian Indigenous people and the thought of Guattari and Deleuze. By turns anthropological field notes, theoretical essay and personal memoir, they provide a unique perspective on the intersection of these domains. They open a window on to the intellectual and spiritual resources, and politics, of Aboriginality in the contemporary world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in these matters.--Paul Patton, UNSW and Wuhan University

This collection serves as a hallmark for delving into conversations regarding Aboriginal representation in mass media and ethnographic research.--James Perez, Colorado Mesa University "LLIDS"

About the Author

Barbara Glowczewski is an anthropologist and a professorial researcher at the French Scientific Research Center, CNRS. She is also a member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the College de France. Last month she was awarded the silver medal of the CNRS. She has dedicated her work to advocating for Australian Aboriginal creativity through a variety of artistic, cinematic and narrative exploration. She is the author of many books in French. Recent publications in English include Desert Dreamers (Univocal, 2016) and Kunga: Law Women from the Desert (Skira Editore, 2012).