A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master's house with the master's tools
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, The University of Manchester, Independent Scholar and Museum Consultant, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, James Cook University, Australia, University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| ANO | 2024 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Critique of Anthropology |
| ISSN | 0308-275X |
| E-ISSN | 1460-3721 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x241253373 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
The 2022 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT) Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. The motion is, of course, a riff on Audre Lorde's well-known 1984 claim that 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.' Lorde is asking about the tools of a racist and constitutionally exclusionary world, but we can ask similar questions about the tools of an academic discipline, anthropology, which arose during the height of empire, and the house that anthropology has built and its location in the university. Are anthropology's tools able to dismantle a house built on oppression, exploitation and discrimination and then build a different better house? If not, then what kinds of other tools might we use, and what is it that we might want to build? The motion is proposed by David Mills and Mwenda Ntarangwi and opposed by Kelly Gillespie and Naisargi Davé with Soumhya Venkatesan convening and editing the debate for publication.