The return to Hospitality

Anthropology has been largely absent from the recent explosion of interdisciplinary enthusiasm with hospitality across philosophy, political science, and cultural studies. Yet anthropology's living engagement with hospitality has been far deeper than that of any other discipline. This essay, which introduces the volume, aims to revitalize hospitality as a frontier area of theoretical development in anthropology by highlighting the topic's connections to some of our discipline's most vibrant themes and concerns: ethical reasoning, materiality, temporality and affect, alterity and cosmopolitics, sovereignty and scale.

Candea, M., and G. Da Col. 2012. The return to Hospitality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18:S1-S19.

The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01757.x/abstract