Description
Soumhya Venkatesan argues that the word ‘decolonization’ is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. In compelling prose, she describes the work already underway and the work still needed – in research, writing and teaching – to extend the horizons of the discipline. She explores a range of concepts including Achille Mbembe’s disenclosure, Cheryl Mattingly’s moral experiments, Miranda Fricker’s epistemic justice, and Gurminder Bhambra’s epistemological justice, and domestication. Throughout, she emphasises the potential of ethnography as a way of both knowing diverse worlds and of being with others in them.
Rich with insights from a range of fields, Decolonizing Anthropology is a go-to book for students and scholars.
Book Information
ISBN 9781509540594
Author Soumhya Venkatesan
Format Hardback
Page Count 252
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd