Introdução a "Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter", Talal Asad

Asad, Talal; Reinhardt, Bruno

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“…Postcolonial, black and feminist interventions revealed that, although ethnographers often wrote in a style that suggested they were detached, 'objective' observers, they were actually nothing of the sort (see e.g. Asad 1973;Gerrit Huizer and Mannheim 1979;Harding 1987;Harrison 1991). Anthropologists' gender, race, and associations with colonial power, critics argued, had enabled them to access certain kinds of data whilst precluding them from accessing others; their accounts might not be inaccurate, but they were certainly 'partial' (Clifford 1986: 7).…”

Section: A Dilemma For Political Anthropologymentioning

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Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration

Long¹

2018

Handbook of Political Anthropology

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This chapter explores how political anthropology can contribute to understanding, and challenging, the multiple forms of postdemocracy that have arisen in recent decades. Ethnographic research demonstrates how postdemocratic governance can be immensely harmful, as it is frequently underpinned by dynamics quite different to the beneficent principles it purports to embody. This discovery in itself can empower anthropologists to make important critical interventions. But political anthropology also clarifies how postdemocratic arrangements actually arise. It moves us beyond simplistic portraits of postdemocracy as grounded in 'economic power' or 'a turn to expertise', instead illuminating the complex processes by which different private (and public) interests gain leverage in both policy-making processes and citizens' political aspirations. These insights do not just make for better causal explanations of political transformations. They are also a vital resource for activism, enabling us to explore alternatives to postdemocracy that are responsive to the concerns of the people we work with, rather than-or perhaps as well as-our own. The chapter illustrates these arguments with examples drawn from Brazil, the United States, and the author's own research in Indonesia.

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Section: A Dilemma For Political Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration

Long¹

2018

Handbook of Political Anthropology

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“…In his writings, he elevated fieldwork to a central part of his scientific image, creating what some observers have even described as a near mythical intrepid explorer character . In the European context, this followed the trend toward indirect rule in colonial administration, which included commissioning anthropologists to explore the legal traditions of tribes in the colonies for the use of administrators (Malinowski ; Bamett ; Asad ; Rouland , 21–40; Nader , 71–87; O'Barr ).…”

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American Legal Realism and Anthropology

Tuori¹

2017

Law soc. inq.

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The purpose of this article is to analyze the interdisciplinary cooperation and interaction between American legal realists and anthropologists during the interwar period. Using scholarly publications and manuscripts as its sources, it argues that despite the lack of recognition in earlier studies, there were transfers of important methodological and substantive influences that were crucial to the creation of legal anthropology as it is known today, as well as the whole field of law and society studies. Writers of the era like Karl N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, Felix S. Cohen, Franz Boas, and Bronislaw Malinowski utilized interdisciplinary influences to criticize scholarly formalism as well as social and political conservatism, seeking to replace conceptual structures with scientific facts gained from studies.

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“…Deloria's and other anti-colonial critiques (e.g., Asad, 1973) occurred simultaneously with an upsurge of perceived anthropological guilt that its past involved an intellectual complicity with ethnocide. Attempts to ''reinvent'' anthropology more ethically, more interculturally, date to this period (Hymes, 1972).…”

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Ethnography

Whiteley¹

2004

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

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Introdução a "Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter", Talal Asad

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Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration

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