Anthropology and decolonisation

Who argues that decolonisation is not a metaphor

Tuck and Yang

What is decolonisation according to tuck and yang

The repatriation if indigenous land and life

What are settler moves to innocence

reconciliation of settler guilt and complicity

Why is the metaphor of decolonisation dangerous

it domesticates decolonisation

Fanon statement on decolonisation

‘decolonisation never takes place unnoticed’

Settler nativism involves 2 processes

imagining a native past and a settler future

Name of anthropologist who explores anthro and decolonisation

harrison

In spite of varying attempts at revision an reform, Harrison claims that anthropology remains

Overwhelmingly a Western intellectual and ideological project

A genuine science of humankind based upon premises of freedom and equality cannot emerge until

the anthropology born of the rationalist and liberal intellectual tradition is destroyed

What is a potential limitation of Harrison’s argument that decolonising the discipline must be led by marginalised communities

Anti-racists have argued that it should not be the responsibility of non-white groups to educate white people about privilege. But then where do you go from that, how do you avoid paralysis?

Where does harrison argue the impetus for transforming anthropology mustcome from

out of the experiences and struggles of third world people

What is modernism

reason is the highest authority, progress is real and possible, there are universal truths, the individual is the most important unit of society

problematic aspects of postmodernism

extreme relativism and scepticism, which invalidate radical critique and gives rise to a denial of the validity and reliability of theoretical explanation

the problems that postmodernism poses cannot be resolved by textual and epistemological means,

they can only be resolved through political structure

According to Harrison, which contributions have been erased/ peripheralised from the canon

women and people of colour

Rather than an anthropologist, native anthropologists are often treated as

overqualified fieldwork assistants- they can gain access to knowledge otherwise inaccessible

what type of anthropology does harrison want

politically engaged, collaborative, materially engaged, not jsut theoretically self-critical

Harrison says that anthropology has historically done har because of its colonial roots, but can become a force for good if

radically transformed

What is Cusicanqui’s metaphor

ideas flow from the South to the North like raw materials, and return as finished academic products — just like colonial extraction of natural resources.

anthropologist who came up with raw material metaphor

Cusicanqui

according to cusicanqui, what happens to ideas such as her own from indigenous intelectuals

The ideas are taken and then regurgitated in depoliticised, jargon-heavy academic language that serves the career interests of North American professors, rather than the liberation of indigenous peoples.