Anthropologists have long looked to animistic forager-cultivator cultures for insights into the spectrum of human lifeways. Yet they have largely failed to appreciate indigenous horizons of concern and, in cross-cultural comparisons, to factor in enormous disparities in population size between these cultures and others. Us, Relatives examines how scalar blindness has limited our understanding of key issues in forager studies and distorted the insights these societies offer us. In particular, the book argues that contemporary anthropology’s scale-blind multicultural ethos unleashes the power of large-scale conceptual language—of persons, relations, and ethnic groups—into the study of indigenous peoples and eclipses local modes of living plurally that encompass humans and nonhumans through notions of kinship and shared humanity. Drawing on long-term research with a community of South Asian foragers and emphasizing scaling as a universal and variable human activity, Nurit Bird-David develops this argument through a scale-sensitive ethnography of these foragers’ lifeways and horizons. Through the idea of pluripresence, she reveals a mode of belonging that subverts the modern ontological touchstone of “imagined communities,” a mode that is not rooted in sameness among strangers but in diversity among relatives, whatever their form.