Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski : Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathur, Chandana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malinowski, Bronisław, 1884-1942.

Anthropology.

Decolonization.

Local Subjects:

Malinowski, Bronisław, 1884-1942.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The proposed book tackles a wide range of issues in anthropology: from disciplinary trajectories in Global South areas to relations of power within the discipline, to research and teaching methodology. The book brings together voices from outside the discipline's dominant Anglo-American tradition. The volume re-thinks the figure of Malinowski as a central disciplinary reference.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Decentering Anthropology, by way of Malinowski

Part I - In the Wake of Bronisław Malinowski

Chapter 1 - The Center as an Intersection: Following the Malinowski-Masson Collaboration

Chapter 2 - Magic's Transference for National Invented Traditions: Malinowski in Mexico (and Oaxaca)

Chapter 3 - Gardens in Connections: Plants, Ethnography, and Malinowski's Legacy

Chapter 4 - Malinowski, Kenyatta, and Anthropology in Kenya's Nation Building

Chapter 5 - A Notorious Diarist-Bronisław Malinowski and His Sinful Publics: Polish Editor's Remarks

Part II - Decentering Malinowski, Decentering Anthropology

Chapter 6 - After the "Diary in a Queer Sense of the Term": Anxious Borders between Works and Lives in Anthropology Today

Chapter 7 - Decolonizing Archival Description: Reviewing Problematic Language in the Malinowski Collection

Chapter 8 - Rupture and Social Isolation in Ireland's Asylum System: A Personal Reflection

Chapter 9 - Un-disciplining the "Native": Decolonizing and Disrupting Alterity in Anthropology

Afterword - Ambivalence: Between Malinowski's Two Anthropological Worlds

Index.

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ISBN:

1-83695-478-6

OCLC:

1583178762