AN324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Colombian Institute Of Anthropology And History, Canada Research Chair, Eurocentrism
Document Summary
November 12, 2013: instituto colombiano de antropologia e historia, icanh, bogota, Colombia: other anthropologies and anthropology otherwise: steps toward a. Today, some anthropologies have more paradigmatic weight = Dominant anthropologies: assume a single epistemic space within which anthropology functions as a practice, have a privileged position from which to produce anthropology, other anthropologies/anthropology otherwise. Assume that the space where anthropology is practiced is fractured. It is a plural space where different communities of anthropologists and their anthropologies are diversely located across social, cultural, historical and political axes. It does not claim epistemic and ontological privilege on some other criteria (e. g. identity or commitment to resistance) Aims at loosening disciplinary constraints that subaltern anthropologies face in the name of unmarked/normalized anthropology: restrepo and escobar locate their perspective: As a close inspection of anglo-american anthropology, which has achieved ascendancy over many world anthropologies.
