Andrew M. Bauer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, California. He is author of Before Vijayanagara: Prehistoric Landscapes and Politics in the Tungabhadra Basin (2015). Mona Bhan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University, Indiana. She is author of Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? (2014).

• 1. Introduction: materializing climate; 2. Assembling the Anthropocene; 3. On soils, stones, and social relationships of geophysical history; 4. On glaciers and grass and weather and welfare; 5. Social welfare without the Anthropocene's nature; 6. Conclusion: toward a critical anthropology of global warming.

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