Search results
May 6, 2021 · Lewis, Diane. 1973. Anthropology and colonialism. Current Anthropology 14.5: 581–602. DOI: 10.1086/201393. Examines the historical role of the anthropologist in pursuits of colonial interests and compares the anthropologist-subject relationship to that of the colonizer-colonized. One of the most influential texts linking anthropology and ...
- How to Subscribe
How to Subscribe Oxford Bibliographies is available to...
- The Northwest Coast
The distinctive culture of the Indigenous populations on the...
- How to Subscribe
Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For example, the role of "objective outsider" with its resultant professional exploitation of subject matter can be viewed as an academic manifestation of ...
- Diane Lewis
- 1973
Dec 9, 2008 · The anthropology of colonialism has often unmasked this ‘strategic illusion’ of thinking that one actually comes to know people better by adopting an objective, ‘expert’ distance towards the people defined as ‘target’ or ‘object’ (cf. Mitchell 2002). 10 It did so by incorporating the history of colonial research methods into its ...
- Peter Pels
- 2008
Colonialism gave anthropology a chance to keep rectifying itself. Therefore, while anthropology was used, it also produced new thoughts and self-reflection on its practice to make itself more neutral and more scientific. With the rise and fall of colonialism, the problems facing anthropology have gradually expanded.
Area of Anthropology: Dr. Beatrice Medicine was a scholar, anthropologist, and educator known for her work in the fields of Indigenous languages and cultures, applied anthropology, gender studies, and Native history. She was born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and spent years teaching, traveling, and working in anthropology throughout the world before returning to Standing ...
The giant composite field of colonialism and postcolonialism studies has had a transforming effect on modern anthropology. Anthropologists have been innovative users of its multidisciplinary perspectives, and key contributors to its challenging accounts of past and contemporary global life and experience. The call to prioritise colonial and postcolonial perspectives in the framing of ...
People also ask
How did colonialism affect anthropology?
Why did anthropology become a part of the colonial system?
What role did colonialism play in anthropology?
Is anthropology related to colonialism?
Why should anthropologists focus on colonial and postcolonial perspectives?
How did colonialism shape the relationship between anthropologists and non-Western peoples?
effects of colonialism; see also Magubane 1971 for a recent criticism by a Third World anthropologist of anthropological studies of change which ignore colonialism.) Since anthropology emerged along with the expan-sion of Europe and the colonization of the non-West-ern world, anthropologists found themselves partici-