This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfires as an immanent challenge to anthropological practice. Pace Mike Davis, the case for letting anthropology burn entails a call to abandon its liberal suppositions. As a discourse of moral perfectibility founded in histories of settler colonialism and chattel slavery, liberal humanism and its anthropological register of ethnographic sentimentalism proved insufficient to confront the existential threats of climate catastrophe and authoritarian retrenchment in 2019. The case for letting anthropology burn is fortified by efforts to unsettle the conceptual and methodological preoccupations of the discipline in service of political projects of repatriation, repair, and abolition. By abandoning the universal liberal subject as a stable foil for a renewed project of cultural critique, the field of anthropology cannot presume a coherent human subject as its point of departure but must adopt a radical humanism as its political horizon. [sociocultural anthropology, settler colonialism, afterlives of slavery, climate change, the human]

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让人类学燃烧的案例：2019年的社会文化人类学

本文主要研究社会文化人类学家在2019年发布的奖学金。2019年，人类学领域面临着人为的气候变化和专制统治，这既是学术研究的对象，又是对该学科复制的生存威胁。本文以2018年美国人类学协会在圣何塞举行的会议为出发点，认为加利福尼亚山火是人类学实践面临的固有挑战。佩斯·迈克·戴维斯（Pace Mike Davis），让人类学遭受重创的案例要求人们放弃其自由主义的假设。作为建立在定居者殖民主义和动产奴隶制历史上的道德完美主义的论述，事实证明，自由主义人文主义及其人类学情感主义的人类学记录不足以应对2019年气候灾难和威权主义裁员的生存威胁。通过努力解决服务于政治项目的学科在概念和方法论上的努力，强化了人类学的论断。遣返，修理和废除。通过放弃普遍的自由主义主题作为新的文化批评计划的稳定障碍，人类学领域不能以一致的人类主题为出发点，而必须采用激进的人本主义作为其政治视野。[ 努力使该学科在遣返，修复和废除政治项目的服务中动摇的观念和方法论上的努力，加强了人类学燃烧的理由。通过放弃普遍的自由主义主题作为新的文化批评计划的稳定障碍，人类学领域不能以一致的人类主题为出发点，而必须采用激进的人本主义作为其政治视野。[ 努力使该学科在遣返，修复和废除政治项目的服务中动摇的观念和方法论上的努力，加强了人类学燃烧的理由。通过放弃普遍的自由主义主题作为新的文化批评计划的稳定障碍，人类学领域不能以一个一致的人类主题为出发点，而必须采用激进的人本主义作为其政治视野。[社会文化人类学，定居者殖民主义，奴隶制的来世，气候变化，人类]