Decentering anthropology by way of Malinowski critical perspectives on power, place and colonialism / edited by Chandana Mathur and Dorothy Louise Zinn.

Other author Mathur, Chandana
Other author Zinn, Dorothy Louise
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn, 2026.
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Contents Introduction. Decentering anthropology, by way of Malinowski / Chandana Mathur and Dorothy L. Zinn -- The center as an intersection : following the Malinowski-Masson collaboration / Daniela Salvucci -- Magic's transference for national invented traditions : Malinowski in Mexico (and Oaxaca) / Ricardo F. Macip -- Gardens in connections : plants, ethnography, and Malinowski's legacy / Davide Cacchioni -- Malinowski, Kenyatta, and anthropology in Kenya's nation building / Isaac K. Nyamongo -- A notorious diarist-Bronisław Malinowski and his sinful publics : Polish editor's remarks / Grażyna Kubica -- After the "Diary in a queer sense of the term" : anxious borders between works and lives in anthropology today / Thomas Strong -- Decolonizing archival description : reviewing problematic language in the Malinowski collection / Emma Pizarro -- Rupture and social isolation in Ireland's asylum system : a personal reflection / Abayomi Ogunsanya -- Un-disciplining the "native" : decolonizing and disrupting alterity in anthropology / Joy Owen -- Afterword. Ambivalence : between Malinowski's two anthropological worlds / Michał Buchowski.
Abstract "Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropologies and the decolonization of anthropological knowledge, production, and careers. Despite (and because of) the publication of his diaries (Malinowski 1967), Malinowski remains part of an equivocal global anthropological tradition. Featuring scholars across various locations, genders and generations, this book neither celebrates nor "cancels" Malinowski. Instead, it offers an eccentric space of reconsideration and a prism for reflecting on power configurations in anthropology today"-- Provided by publisher.
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