Paleoanthropology
Decolonizing and Building for the Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19023979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Rogers Ackermann (0000-0001-8757-6878, University of Cape Town), Rebecca Ackermann, Sheela Athreya (0000-0002-8498-8313, University of Cape Town), Wendy Black (0000-0002-8540-1588, University of Cape Town), Robyn Humphreys (University of Cape Town), Robert Pickering (0000-0002-2663-7574, University of Cape Town), Robyn Pickering, Yonatan Sahle (0000-0003-1098-1685, University of Cape Town), Lauren Schroeder (0000-0001-6406-8096, University of Cape Town) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2549 |
| OpenAlex | W4405737489 |
| ISBN | 9780470657225 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
The study of human evolution, also known as palaeoanthropology, focuses on our distant and more recent human past; what shaped us as a lineage, genus, and species; and how we came to be the diverse single species we are today. However, the bulk of this research, knowledge production, and understanding has been driven by the global North to the exclusion of non‐Western scientists, despite the deep and rich fossil record of formerly colonized regions (Africa, Australia, South and Southeast Asia, North/South America), maintaining a neocolonial dynamic to this day. Coloniality manifests itself in paleoanthropology in multiple ways: who conducts research, who gets recognition and reward, whose voices and worldviews get centered in paleoanthropological models, what is considered to constitute scientific knowledge, where fossil/archaeological material is housed and curated, and who controls access to these collections. This entry explores these manifestations of coloniality, offering corrective practices
Archaeology · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Human evolution · Paleoanthropology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating helicopter research in the Global South
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology
Investigating the 1930s Kohl-Larsen collection from the Lake Eyasi Basin, Tanzania
The history and composition of the Raymond A. Dart Collection of Human Skeletons at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Adventures in the Bone Trade
Decolonising the Broken Hill Skull
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Moving beyond the adaptationist paradigm for human evolution, and why it matters
A virtual assessment of the suprainiac depressions on the Eyasi I (Tanzania) and Aduma ADU-VP-1/3 (Ethiopia) Pleistocene hominin crania
Island tales
Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire
Primordialism and the 'Pleistocene San' of southern Africa
Louis Leakey's Mau Mau
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |