This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation.

Introduction: Anthropology and responsibilityMelissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris1 Edgy imaginaries: "Ghost’"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a plantation landscapeLiana Chua2 The responsibility to consume: Excessive ‘environmentourism’ against rhinoceros extinction in South AfricaStasja Koot 3 Responsibility versus responsibilization: Mafiacraft, witchcraft and the rise of conspiracy thinking todayPeter Geschiere 4. In the wake of disenchantment: Silence and the limits of ethnographic attentivenessYana Stainova 5 The vulnerability vortex: Health, exclusion, and social responsibilityDavid Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann6 Keeping things under control: Responsibilities towards things, homes, people in hoarding disorderRebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt7 Racialized positionalities: Ethnographic responsibility and the anthropology of racism and white supremacySofía Ugarte8 Of Calcutta, death and the South: Juxtaposing three Calcuttas/KolkatasDebarun Sarkar9 The countess’ diaries and taonga Māori: Twenty-first century collaborations around nineteenth century collectingKirsty Kernohan10 Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment"Joel White