Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze

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
Indigenising Anthropology… constitutes a fundamental epistemological event. By studying the reception of the fourteen texts that this book contains and the influence that, with F. Guattari’s and G. Deleuze’s writings, they exert on other indigenous narratives (for example, the influence of these texts on African-Brazilian thought), which will play a major role in the anthropo-political awakening of peripheralized human groupings, B. Glowczewski shows the rhizomatic entanglement of the issues, which are, at the same time, political, cultural and linguistic, that the aforementioned narratives represent for each Indigenous or “indigenized” peoples. -- Bouazza Benachir * Alienocene *
The success of this book lies in its ability to articulate a multiplicity of singular voices, demonstrating the equal intellectual value of the thought of Australian Aboriginals and that of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, in order to reframe the practice of anthropology. -- Raphaël Preux * Anthropologie et Sociétés *