2023
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13190
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Kill your ancestors

Abstract: This essay explains why debates about the decolonization of anthropology tend to become reactive and confrontational, and outlines a model for why productive critique is central to intellectual progress. In a small, young discipline that values subjectivity and the questioning of ethnocentrism, the decolonial critique of tradition is more likely to be felt as a personalized war on one's professional community and sense of self. Further, the tendency toward factionalism in anthropology is driven by an emphasis … Show more

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