This collection brings together leading anthropologists and philosophers working in a wide range of contexts in order to rethink an oft taken for granted concept—the concept of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the twelve contributors to Living with Concepts instead looks at the ways in which concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life, and thus how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language. In other words, attention to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not a movement of ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. Living with Concepts offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by deeply unsettling a distinction between thought and reality that is still too often smuggled back into the fold. In its place, the book takes the first step toward an anthropological practice guided by a realistic spirit—one in which the supposed need to grasp reality is replaced by an acknowledgement that we might instead be in its grip.