Dear Mariske and 'All (humanimal) Others'
(Sorry if this is not the answer/reaction you were expecting:-):-()
If we dare to look European anthropology deeply in the face...a possible
perception could be ......we are part of a 'regaining paradise'
endeavour to find and restore something we, Europeans, have lost in a
macro-long-term-process.
Following this thread our 'cultural self-reflexive' efforts in 'who are
we?' and 'how to decolonize anthropology' could be rephrased as 'what
were/are we looking for' and 'have we found it yet'?
Rephrasing it in this way opens liberating/smiling doors into 'native
anthropology' and into 'can the subaltern speak?'. (Vine Deloria 1972 We
Talk, You Listen <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_Deloria_Jr.> ..
German translation 'Nur Stämme werden überleben
<http://www.anthropo-gazing.nl/de/only-indigenous-communities-will-survive/>')
It is possible indigenous peoples know, and act upon for many, many
generations, for what we Europeans try to explain away scientifically?
Or as masses of (us) tourists look for in our exotic journeying....for
which the Germans have this wonderful 'aeffective' conception: 'Fernweh'
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fernweh>.
This leads to the question..can we (European families/communities)
relearn what First Nations knew/know?
And what have anthropologists already contributed to relarning what has
been lost?
Some trailblazers in this trope: Stanley Diamond (1972 In Search of the
Primitive <http://www.primitivism.com/search-of-the-primitive.htm>);
Melvin Konner (1982/2003 The Tangled Wing
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470490400200102>);
Ellen Dissanayake (1995 Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
<https://ellendissanayake.com/books/homo_aestheticus.php>); Marshall
Sahlins (2007 The Western Illusion of Human Nature <2007 The Western
Illusion>); Sarah Hrdy (2011 Mothers and Others
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060326&content=reviews>);
Edith Turner (2012 Communitas: Anthropology of Joy
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-stoller/edith-turner-and-the-anth_b_10692810.html>).
kind regards
Dirck van Bekkum, The Netherlands
artisan-clinical-system anthropologist
https://ctt.academia.edu/DirckVanBekkum
www.anthropo-gazing.nl
www.ctt.nl
Op 25-3-2019 om 13:00 schreef Liana Chua:
> Hi Mariske,
>
> Nayanika Mathur and I raise some of these issues in our recent edited
> volume, 'Who are "we"? Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology'
> (Berghahn, 2018). Our introduction is freely available here -
> http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ChuaWho - and it contains a whole section
> and several pertinent references to writings by non-Western anthropologists
> and articles/collections on non-Western anthropology. Hope that's helpful!
>
> Best wishes,
> Liana
>
>
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> Dear all,
>
>
> In an upcoming course on "postcolonial/decolonizing anthropology" I want to
> encourage students to engage with ethnographic literature written by
> non-Western anthropologists. Could anybody advise me on anthropologists from
> Asia, Africa and/or Latin America, and their best writings?
>
>
> In addition, does anybody have experience with teaching a similar course,
> and if yes, would you mind sharing some ideas and insights with me?
>
>
> I thank you all in advance!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mariske Westendorp
>
> Department of Cultural Anthropology, University College Utrecht
> (Netherlands) Department of Religious Studies, Utrecht University
> (Netherlands) Department of Comparative Religious Studies, Radboud
> University Nijmegen (Netherlands)?
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