156 Queer Marxian Modalities of Critique in Anthropology: Generations, Approaches, Ends Andreas Streinzer Researcher, University St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Institute for Social Research Frankfurt, Germany andreas.streinzer@unisg.ch Ryan Davey Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales daveyr2@cardiff.ac.uk Queer Marxian (qm) modalities of critique arise at the coalescence of two tendencies in critical anthropology. One is the resurgence of Marxian approaches,101 and the other is the momentum in queer anthropology.102 Both fields of anthropology exhibit a growing theoretical sensibility for questions of capitalism, class, and labour intersecting with kinship, sexuality, and gender on which tender sprouts of qm start showing. One such sign is the formation of q*arx, a collective of anthropologists working with the productive tensions of Marxian and queer approaches of which both authors are part. As part of this effort, we will sketch genealogies and elements of queer Marxian possibil- ities in critical anthropology of the contemporary. Anthropology is not a stranger to the modalities of queer Marxian critique. Its history is shaped by questions of how sexuality and kinship relate to the organisation of economic life. Yet, the surge in approaches that explicitly call themselves queer and Marxian has raised eyebrows. Queer, isn’t that a Western invention too Eurocentric and pseudo-universal to make sense in ethnography? Marxian, that strange determinism that sees class everywhere and knows everything through theory already? Such “tired argument(s),” to borrow from Jafari Sinclair Allen,103 should not keep us from seeing the usefulness of queer, or Marxian theories and ethnographies, and their history and complexities. We propose a conciliatory approach that thinks ethnographically and theoretically about the articulation of sexuality and gender with production and exchange and is curious about theoretical work in its vicinity. 101 Neveling, P., and Steur, L. (2018). Introduction. Focaal 2018(82): 1–15. 102 Boyce, P., Engebretsen, E. L., and Posocco, S. (2018). Introduction: Anthropology’s Queer Sensibilities. Sexualities 215(6): 843–852. 103 Allen, J. S. (2016). View of One View from a Deterritorialized Realm: How Black/Queer Renarrativizes Anthropological Analysis. Cultural Anthropology 31(4): 617–626. forum: critical ethnography Public Anthropologist 6 (2024) 125–199