Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin

Indigenous Literatures

The following works on Indigenous themes are classics of anthropology that have been translated into German for the first time:

• Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• We Are in the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth
• Fire and Ember: The Sámi Art of Fire by Yngve Ryd
• The Original Affluent Society by Marshall Sahlins
• The West, the Indigenous Peoples, and Us by Ivan Segré
• The Magic World by Ernesto de Martino

Together, these books, published by  Matthes & Seitz Berlin, form an intellectual laboratory that challenges some of the central assumptions of Western modernity. Concepts such as property, progress, economic growth, rationality, and humanity’s relationship with nature no longer appear as universal truths, but rather as historically contingent perspectives existing alongside other forms of knowledge and ways of inhabiting the world.