Anthropology’s Many Deaths and the Birth of World Anthropologies (1.4)
The longer version of the title might have been: How many anthropologies does the West need to produce before they become ‘World Anthropologies’? The tradition of anthropomorphizing inanimate objects and abstract ideas has all of the shortcomings that we already know. Like “cultural extinction,” which suggests that cultures as ideas and practices can “die,” and […]
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