Huon Wardle’s enduring interest as an anthropologist has been in individuals and how we make a meaningful world, finding freedoms for ourselves; how we transcend cultural categories, thought-habits and relational constraints through creative translations and narrations of autobiographical experience. Wardle’s ethnographic work has focused on the Caribbean (An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica, Mellen Press, 2000). The search has been for a conceptual toolkit with which to make sense of everday experience in a cosmopolitanizing—often dissonant, jumbled, and confused, but also potentially liberating—world society. A pivotal concept has become “common sense” as a human universal. Wardle is the author/editor of ten volumes, including The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science with Nigel Rapport and Albert Piette (2023), and more than seventy academic papers and other interventions. With Paloma Gay y Blasco, in 2023, Wardle published 人类学家如何写作: 民族志阅读指南, or How Anthropologists Write, with Shanghai Normal University Press. Wardle was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute’s J.B. Donne Prize in 2014.