Palestinian Subjectivities in Anthropology This paper, based on an essay written for the Annual Review of Anthropology, identifies four different kinds of Palestinian subjectivity, which have been generated in proto-ethnographic and ethnographic writing about Palestine since late 19th Century: biblical, Oriental, absent, and post-structural. I argue that these subjectivities have been enabled by various modalities of anthropological engagement with Palestine, which offer an opportunity to explore affinities between the politico-epistemic language of national sovereignty in the West and the constitution of particular subjectivities in a Western form of knowledge, anthropology. Focusing on the epistemic and political dynamics in which the recent admissibility of Palestine into anthropology is embedded, especially after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, I discuss how “the crisis in representation” has a vocabulary that enables the study of colonized and national Palestinian subjectivities within anthropology’s purview. I conclude by considering the possibilities of Palestinian subjectivities that are yet to emerge, whose dissonance with secular reason and power could reinvigorate the critical abilities of post-colonial language and the anthropology that it engenders.