Seeing Like a Native Anthropologist
A Post-Postcolonial Reflection on the Native Turn in Asian Academia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jinba Tenzin (0000-0001-9571-5487, National University of Singapore, Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-406 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642221134844 |
| OpenAlex | W4308136729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article aims to delve into the "native turn" emerging in anthropology and broad academia in Asia and the Global South in the last two decades, represented by their growing momentum in decolonization, autonomy, and "indigenization." There, however, exists a tendency in anthropology, especially among non-Western and "mixed" anthropologists, to dismiss the idea of native(s) or native anthropologists and sometimes replace it with the amorphous notion of "halfies." I contend that many of the "halfies" scholars, informed by postcolonial and postmodern thoughts, tend to misread the de facto postcolonial conditions in which the West continues to dominate in the existing world-systems. I argue that it is vital to acknowledge the native turn as an ethnographical fact because this recognition is closely associated with the prospect of decolonizing anthropology and Western-dominated knowledge production. Next, I use my experience of the native turn(s) to Tibetan and Chinese sociocultural institutions and political sensibilities to better contextualize and exemplify the examined broad native turn in anthropology and social science in Asia. Furthermore, I propose a multifaceted view of natives or nativeness as a necessary step to engage more constructively with the idea of native(s) and the native turn. In so doing, I advocate a post-postcolonial critique to make a timely and necessary intellectual intervention
Decolonization · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenization · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |