Anthropology Under My Skin
This entry is part 20 of 20 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lorena Gibson How we can reclaim anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand and stake out a…
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Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
Foundations of an Anarchist Archaeology: A Community Manifesto
This entry is part 18 of 18 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By The Black Trowel Collective An anarchist archaeology embraces considerations of social inequity as a critique…
Decolonizing archaeological practice in Northeast India: Towards a community-based archaeology at Chungliyimti, Nagaland
This entry is part 17 of 17 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Tiatoshi Jamir I was born on a land declared an ‘Excluded Area’: a previously colonized region.…
Give and Take
This entry is part 16 of 16 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Leslie J. Sabiston and Didier M. Sylvain … did i see that right? my skull is…
Decolonization as Care
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Uzma Z. Rizvi What happens to our praxis once we start from a place of…
What does it mean to decolonize anthropology in Canada?
This entry is part 14 of 14 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zoe Todd I have an ambivalent relationship to Anthropology. And an even more ambivalent relationship…
Epistemologies of Equilibrium Must Fall: Thinking beyond the many turns in Anthropology
This entry is part 13 of 13 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Nokuthula Hlabangane “Modernity will never again, up to the present, ask existentially or philosophically for…
Journey between Two Languages
By Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya.…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Paige West For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology…
Reclaiming Detroit: Decolonizing Archaeology in the Postindustrial City
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Krysta Ryzewski Detroit moves quickly; issues of scale and pace in a city of this…
Introducing the Public Anthropology Institute
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Faye V. Harrison, Carole McGranahan, Matilda Ostow, Melissa Rosario, Paul Stoller, Gina Athena Ulysse and…
Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall and Jennifer Esperanza As young anthropology students in the 90s we heard Dr.…
Tools for Dismantling the Master’s House
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Daniel M. Goldstein “The master’s tools,” Audre Lorde (1984) famously said, “will never dismantle the…
A Decolonial Turn in Anthropology? A View from the Pacific
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lisa Uperesa Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges…
On Decolonising Anthropology
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zodwa Radebe Decolonisation can be understood as the process that decolonises what was colonised; not what…
Healing “the Break”: A DiaspoRican Project of Return
By: Melissa Rosario Decolonization has always been a fraught term for me. As a third generation Puerto Rican from the burbs of NYC who has studied anthropology and…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part II
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part I
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Decolonizing Anthropology
Decolonizing Anthropology is a new series on Savage Minds edited by Carole McGranahan and Uzma Z. Rizvi. Welcome. Just about 25 years ago Faye Harrison poignantly asked if “an…