Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (Writing Past Imperialism) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from an critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces fresh insights into the history of anthropology.
Full description- Publisher: Leicester University Press
- Published: 01 May 1999
- Format: Paperback 258 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Political Leaders & Leadership | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Colonialism & Imperialism | National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism
- ISBN 13: 9780304703401 ISBN 10: 0304703400
- Sales rank: 218,646
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Full description for Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology
This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces insights into the history of anthropology. Organized around an historical reconstruction of the great anthropological controversy over doctrines of virgin birth, the book argues that the allegation a great deal about European colonial discourse and little if anything about indigenous beliefs. By means of an Australian example, the book shows not only that the alleged ignorance was an artefact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology was an artefact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology concerened has been closely tied into both the historical dispossesion and the continuing oppresion of native peoples. The author explores the links between metropolitan anthropological theory and local colonial politics from the 19th century up to the present, settler colonialism, and the ideological and sexual regimes that characterize it.
