Decolonizing Anthropology An Introduction

Venkatesan, Soumhya

ISBN 10: 1509540601 / ISBN 13: 9781509540600

Verlag: Polity Pr, 2025

252 pages. 8.46x5.47x0.91 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-1509540601

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Soumhya Venkatesan describes the work already underway, and the work still needed, to extend the horizons of the discipline. Drawing on scholarship from anthropology and cognate disciplines, as well as ethnographic and other case studies, she argues both that the practice of anthropology needs to be and do better, and that it is worth saving. She focuses not only on ways of decolonizing anthropology but also on the potential of ‘a decolonizing anthropology’.

Rich with insights from a range of fields, Decolonizing Anthropology is an essential resource for students and scholars.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Soumhya Venkatesan is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Decolonizing Anthropology An Introduction
Verlag: Polity Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New