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 criticalyet poorly studiedroles 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.
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 criticalyet poorly studiedroles 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.
Recenzijos
Who Are We? does not provide a response to its own title. Rather, it pulls some of the historical, epistemic and political threads that have come to produce the intricate we that we think we are Importantly, this book is not a guide through preexisting affinities and alterities, but an invitation to imagine new ways of reconnecting people anthropologists and those who are not in ever productive ways. Social Anthropology
[ This volume] raises awareness about existing inequalities in knowledge production, and at the same time contributes to the theoretical discussions on knowledge production in anthropology. Michal Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University
List of Figures
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
Malinowskis 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. Kwika 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
Joćo de Pina-Cabral
Afterword
Mwenda Ntarangwi
Index
Liana Chua is Tunku Abdul Rahman University Associate Professor in Malay World Studies at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her publications include The Christianity of Culture (Palgrave, 2012) and co-edited volumes on evidence, power in Southeast Asia and Alfred Gells theory of art.
