Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropologies and the decolonization of anthropological knowledge, production, and careers. Despite (and because of) the publication of his diaries (Malinowski 1967), Malinowski remains part of an equivocal global anthropological tradition. Featuring scholars across various locations, genders and generations, this book neither celebrates nor "cancels" Malinowski. Instead, it offers an eccentric space of reconsideration and a prism for reflecting on power configurations in anthropology today.
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Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski
Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism
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Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction — Decentering Anthropology, by way of Malinowski
- Part I — In the Wake of Bronislaw Malinowski
- Chapter 1 — The Center as an Intersection: Following the Malinowski–Masson Collaboration
- Chapter 2 — Magic’s Transference for National Invented Traditions: Malinowski in Mexico (and Oaxaca)
- Chapter 3 — Gardens in Connections: Plants, Ethnography, and Malinowski’s Legacy
- Chapter 4 — Malinowski, Kenyatta, and Anthropology in Kenya’s Nation Building
- Chapter 5 — A Notorious Diarist—Bronislaw Malinowski and His Sinful Publics: Polish Editor’s Remarks
- Part II — Decentering Malinowski, Decentering Anthropology
- Chapter 6 — After the “Diary in a Queer Sense of the Term”: Anxious Borders between Works and Lives in Anthropology Today
- Chapter 7 — Decolonizing Archival Description: Reviewing Problematic Language in the Malinowski Collection
- Chapter 8 — Rupture and Social Isolation in Ireland’s Asylum System: A Personal Reflection
- Chapter 9 — Un-disciplining the “Native”: Decolonizing and Disrupting Alterity in Anthropology
- Afterword — Ambivalence: Between Malinowski’s Two Anthropological Worlds
- Index
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