Anthropology From Colonialism to Decoloniality
Surveys theoretical and ethnographic writing from the 1970s to the present to examine anthropology's efforts to decolonize its methods and confront its colonial history.
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Describe the epistemological and political consequences of anthropology’s historical entanglements with European colonialism.
Synthesize the contributions of subaltern, postcolonial, and decolonial studies scholars.
Assess anthropologists’ contributions to postcolonial and decolonial scholarship.
Critically reflect on the current debates in anthropology and the calls to decolonize the discipline.
Identify how your own position and upbringing influence how you learn, what you learn, and how you conduct research.
Integrate decolonial ethnographic methods into your own research.
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Surveys both theoretical and ethnographic writing from the 1970s to the present in order to critically examine anthropology's ongoing efforts to decolonize. How have anthropologists confronted their discipline's colonial history? How have they integrated theories and insight from subaltern, postcolonial, and decolonial scholars? How can anthropologists ensure that they continue to decolonize their methods?
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- Anthropology's colonial history and confrontation with it.
- Integration of subaltern, postcolonial, and decolonial theories.
- Decolonizing anthropological methods.
- Positionality and its influence on research.
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- Describe epistemological and political consequences of anthropology's colonial entanglements.
- Synthesize contributions from subaltern, postcolonial, and decolonial studies.
- Critically reflect on current debates and calls to decolonize anthropology.
- Identify how personal position and upbringing influence learning and research.
- Integrate decolonial ethnographic methods into research.
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