Palestinian anthropology is today largely assumed to be a segment of the anthropology of Palestine. What lies in this assumed inscription and what lies beyond it? What sociohistorical processes press for this junction, and is the first anthropology indeed completely contained by the second? How does it compare to anthropology as produced in other Southern contexts, such as in Brazil? This paper tackles these questions to discuss how colonialism, and academic asymmetry and dependency may affect knowledge production in general, and South-South exchanges in particular. This, in turn addresses the pathways, crossroads, and obstructions laying ahead of a “Southern attitude”, understood here as a “moral destination”, a programmatic yet largely affective and embodied disposition towards a rebalancing of global power relations in view of more sensible academic engagement with the world.