This fielddefining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices Unsettling Queer Anthropology advances a vision of queer anthropology grounded in decolonial abolitionist Black feminist transnational postcolonial Indigenous and queer of color approaches. Critically assessing both anthropologys queer innovations and its colonialist legacies contributors highlight decades of work in queer anthropology challenge the boundaries of anthropologys traditional methodologies forms and objects of study and forge a critical queer of color decolonizing queer anthropology that unsettles anthropologys normative epistemologies.