Since the 1970s anthropologists have persistently scrutinized their discipline for entanglements with colonialism and for reification or unwitting degradation of "the other." Newer currents of research have produced studies aware of these shortcomings, yet confident of anthropology's contributions. Alterations is a new book series dedicated to bringing together the best crafted and most instructive new examples. Part sociocultural analysis, part (auto)biographical inquiry, the books in this series seek to bring to clearer light the foreign pieces of which any self is composed in an increasingly plural but interconnected world. The series turns attention to the myriad processes through which "otherness" comes to form and reform every self, just as it reveals the intersubjectivities of shared otherness. The series builds toward a new methodological imperative: that one ethnographic site, whether spatial or temporal, must always lead to another and that fieldwork, whether synchronic or diachronic, must be on the move.

Series Editor: James Faubion, Rice University