Cultural Anthropology : Sovereignty

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Sovereignty Issue 32.3 August 2017 The August issue of Cultural Anthropology features a Retrospectives collection on “Sovereignty,” edited by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. In her introduction, Kauanui reflects on how the concept of sovereignty has occupied a tentative and emergent role in anthropological work, tacking between distinct localizations and epistemological frames. Yarimar Bonilla underscores how sovereignty, as a sign of Western political thought, has been deeply i..