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Decolonizing anthropology : an introduction / Soumhya Venkatesan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venkatesan, Soumhya, author.
- Series:
- Decolonizing the curriculum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Methodology.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropological ethics.
- Decolonization.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization, but also fresh ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy." -- [Page four] of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: decolonizing anthropology and a decolonizing anthropology
- What is decolonization?
- Colonialism-anthropology
- Epistemological and epistemic justice
- Ignorance and ignoring
- Understanding and transforming universities: the potential of ethnography and anthropology
- On courses and in classes
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781509540600
- 1509540601
- 9781509540594
- 1509540598
- OCLC:
- 1433129128
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