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It’s dangerous to write and post when you have the flu. But I have been housebound since Friday and although my physical …
anthropology of environments: what I learned from the horseshoe crabs
Long Island sunset (winter 2019) “Would you believe me now If I told you I got caught up in a wave? Almost …
I’m too tired to read your work — on refusing HAU Journal
This weekend, PhD student Taylor Genovese drew attention to the fact that the former Editor in Chief of HAU journal was granted an …
A Call for Transformation: Framing the Situation
By Bryan Cockrell At the end of January 2018, I quit a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York …
Work for a Life
For students moving from studying anthropology to working in Silicon Valley, how can learning from worker struggles and solidarity movements in anthropology …
Upsetting the Canon
Teaching anthropology offers a site for critical intervention. So what should we be reading with our students? A critical and reflexive anthropology …
Anthropology, Interrupted: Thank you, Vine Deloria
I was first introduced to anthropology at community college. It was…eye opening. Anthropology challenged the insufficient, limited political and historical education I’d …
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and …
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and …
Decolonization is political action, not an act of historical circumstance.
As an archaeologist who is invested in the project of decolonization, I admit to being wary of its overuse within anthropological discourse …
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 …
Anthropology is an empty pint carton, and our existential projects are the ice cream
Because I regularly teach the history of anthropology, I have thought a lot about classical texts and the shape of our discipline. …
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 24: Thurka Sangaramoorthy on Decolonizing Anthropology in the Trump Era
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical …
Disrupting Nativism (Part One)
We must confront the nativism, xenophobia, and racism that youth in our “diverse classrooms” experience head on. I began writing this article …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Unboxing the Buried Seeds of My Belonging
Latina/o History, Decolonized Pedagogies and the Politics of Inclusion “We, students, deeply internalized the limited exposure and hidden space allotted to vitally …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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) …
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 …