Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Liana Chua, Nayanika Mathur (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-716-8 (ISBN)

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Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological “we” has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. Drawing together both reflections and ethnographic case studies, it interrogates the critical—yet poorly studied—roles played by myriad anthropological “we” ss in generating and influencing anthropological theory, method, and analysis. In the process, new spaces are opened for reimagining who “we” are – and what “we,” and indeed anthropology, could become.

Liana Chua is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London. She works on Christianity, ethnic politics, resettlement, and development in Borneo, and on global orangutan conservation in “the Anthropocene.” Her publications include The Christianity of Culture (Palgrave, 2012) and co-edited volumes on evidence, power in Southeast Asia, and Alfred Gell’s theory of art.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Who Are 'We'?

Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur

PART I: REVISITING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'WE'

Chapter 1. Anthropology at the Dawn of Apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African Engagements, 1919-1934

Isak Niehaus

Chapter 2. The Savage Noble: Alterity and Aristocracy in Anthropology

David Sneath

PART II: ALTERITY AND AFFINITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY'S GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

Chapter 3. The Anthropological Imaginarium: Crafting Alterity, the Self, and an Ethnographic Film in Southwest China

Katherine Swancutt

Chapter 4. The Risks of Affinity: Indigeneity and Indigenous Film Production in Bolivia

Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

Chapter 5. Shifting the 'We' in Oceania: Anthropology and Pacific Islanders Revisited

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

PART III: WHERE DO 'WE' GO FROM HERE?

Chapter 6. Crafting Anthropology Otherwise: Alterity, Affinity, and Performance

Gey Pin Ang and Caroline Gatt

Chapter 7. Towards an Ecumenical Anthropology

João de Pina-Cabral

Afterword

Mwenda Ntarangwi

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-80539-716-8 / 1805397168
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-716-8 / 9781805397168
Zustand	Neuware