Decolonizing anthropology : an introduction / Soumhya Venkatesan.

By:

Venkatesan, Soumhya [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut]

Series: Decolonizing the curriculumPublication details: Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025.Description: x, 252 pages illustrations 22 cmISBN:

9781509540600
1509540601

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.01 V55D 23

LOC classification:

GN33 .V46 2025

Contents:

Introduction: decolonizing anthropology and a decolonizing anthropology -- What is decolonization? -- Colonialism-anthropology -- Epistemological and epistemic justice -- Ignorance and ignoring -- Understanding and transforming universities: the potential of ethnography and anthropology -- On courses and in classes -- Conclusion.

Summary: "Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization, but also fresh ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy." -- [Page four] of cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Central Library, IISER Bhopal On Display	Reference	301.01 V55D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Renny Thomas (0269) Not For Loan	Title recommended by Dr Renny Thomas	02/03/2026	12363

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-242) and index.

"Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization, but also fresh ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy." -- [Page four] of cover.

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