Hello,
I realize the below 'abstract' is meant as satire, but perhaps we can
discuss the propensity for European Anthropology to use terms like 'native'
and the phrase 'going native' and what that means for people within the
discipline who are Indigenous and/or POC [aka: those marginalized within a
discipline that Hutchinson et al. (2011) identify as 'white public space']?
Pieces like this abstract sent out on the Anthropology Matters list premise
their humour on a particular vision of anthropology, one in which the
so-called 'native' is not within the halls and classrooms of the academy
(the joke is that the anthropologist is clearly not 'native' to being with,
hence why the blurring of Indigenous person or interlocutor as
subject/object becomes a point of humorous contention for non-Indigenous
folks) . As a Métis woman, jokes like this start to wear thin, even if
meant in jest. The accumulation of comments and 'jokes' like this over time
creates a toxic work environment for BIPOC scholars within the discipline.
I should not have to explain to my Indigenous students, who are eager to
join the discipline, why my colleagues are still using the phrase 'going
native' in 2016.
Just some food for thought.
Here's a great piece for people to read:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01368.x/abstract
Best,
Zoe Todd
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