This instalment problematises the disciplinary boundaries of European anthropology by studying the shifting conditions of our work and changing centres of gravity in the field. We reconsidered what the concept of “European anthropology” brings actually to the fore, while working in a context of changing epistemic relations, labour conditions, institutional assessment, claims to disciplinary validity, and the relation between localities and practitioners. We argue that European anthropology does not exist as a single, easy to define entity precisely because it exceeds its conditions of possibility and goes beyond geographic relations and separations. We conclude that a key feature characterising European anthropology is its transnational character – troubling of the boundaries of the discipline and the geographical continent.