Critically interrogates the powerful yet under-studied relationship between collective anthropological identities and affiliations (who ‘we’ think ‘we’ are) and anthropological methods, concepts and theories, both past and present.
Attempts to decolonize and reimagine the Anglo-American anthropological mainstream.
Revisits questions of anthropological multiplicity and plurality while exploring ways to build new bridges and connections between anthropologies and anthropologists.
Puts multiple voices and anthropological styles in conversation within a single collection.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Who Are 'We'?
Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
PART I: REVISITING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'WE'
Chapter 1. Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski's South African Engagements, 1919-1934
Isak Niehaus
Chapter 2. The Savage Noble: Alterity and Aristocracy in Anthropology
David Sneath
PART II: ALTERITY AND AFFINITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY'S GLOBAL LANDSCAPE
Chapter 3. The Anthropological Imaginarium: Crafting Alterity, the Self, and an Ethnographic Film in Southwest China
Katherine Swancutt
Chapter 4. The Risks of Affinity: Indigeneity and Indigenous Film Production in Bolivia
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Chapter 5. Shifting the 'We' in Oceania: Anthropology and Pacific Islanders Revisited
Ty P. Kawika Tengan
PART III: WHERE DO 'WE' GO FROM HERE?
Chapter 6. Crafting Anthropology Otherwise: Alterity, Affinity, and Performance
Gey Pin Ang and Caroline Gatt
Chapter 7. Towards an Ecumenical Anthropology
João de Pina-Cabral
Afterword
Mwenda Ntarangwi
Index
