Browsing All posts tagged under »Kathleen Gough«

The Goat Caught in Bushkazi: Personal Effects of One’s Role in the Great Game

July 31, 2012 by

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The beginning of this story, for me, was in the spring of 1969. I had applied for funding to do a cutting edge project combining methods and techniques of visual anthropology that I had learned from John Collier, Jr, my own version of cognitive anthropology arising out of the works of Edward Sapir and the […]

0.19: Questions about Colonialism and Anthropology: Epistemology, Methodology, and Politics

October 29, 2009 by

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Two Sides of the Same Coin Anthropology might look it came to us with a dual consciousness. On one side, a consciousness influenced by ideals of science and objectivity, driven to developing a commanding knowledge about human others. On the other side, a consciousness of itself as a creature of imperialism, guided by a scientific […]

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