Decolonizing Anthropology

“provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology.” Bolles ~American Ethnologist, 1994

“groundbreaking” Levinson ~The Teachers College Record, 2008

DECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of the discipline devoted to understanding humankind in all its diversity and commonality. The utility and power of a decolonized anthropology must continue to be tested and developed. May the results of ethnographic probes--the data, the social and cultural analysis, the theorizing, and the strategies for knowledge application--help scholars envision clearer paths toincreased understanding, a heightened sense of intercultural and international solidarity, and last, but certainly not least, world transformation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Yolanda T Moses

Preface by Kimberly Eison Simmons

Anthropology as an Agent of Transformation: Introductory Comments and Queries by Faye V Harrison

Man and Nature, White and Other by Michael L Blakey

Colonized Anthropology: Cargo-Cult Discourse by Pem Davidson Buck

On Ethnography in an Intertextual Situation: Reading Narratives or Desconstructing Discourse? by Glenn H Jordan

Undoing Fieldwork: Personal, Political, Theoretical and Methodological Implications by Deborah D'Amico-Samuels

Ethnography as Politics by Faye V Harrison

Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons from Fieldwork in Central American by Philippe Bourgeois

"They Exploited Us But We Didn't Feel It": Hegemony, Ethnic Militancy, and the Miskitu-Sandinista Conflict by Charles R Hale

Anthropology and Liberation by Edmund T Gordon

Militarism and Accumulation as Cargo Cult by Angelia Gilliam

Epilogue by Delmos J Jones