Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis

Speaking Of/From a Chicana Consciousness

Bibliographic Data

ID2387381
AuthorsMónica Russel Y Rodríguez (Metropolitan State College, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume4
Issue1
Pages15-40
Publication date1998-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/107780049800400102
OpenAlexW2171152643
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited39

In this article, the author explores how both normative and oppositional stances contrib ute to a silencing praxis in anthropology. She suggests that anthropology as a discipline and as an institution works hard to silence due to its history, its theoretical nature, and its methods that require static and uncomplicated single identities of its subjects and theoreticians. The practice and theory of anthropology contradict each other. Its practice demands an ethnographer-Native informer dyad, placing the ethnographer as the knower while only valuing the knowledge of the Native. Its theory values native knowledge and exalts diversity vis-à-vis cultural relativism. Opposing either theory or practice underscores the paradox. As a Chicana anthropologist, the author experiences a tricky conflation of these competing agendas. She recommends exposing these limita tions and actively reclaiming the very voice and epistemology that has been denounced to persist in the method and efficacy of anthropology

Aesthetics · Anthropological linguistics · Applied anthropology · Applied linguistics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Normative · Praxis · Silence · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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