Across Anthropology, Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial, Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial

Author

Sansi, Roger

Year

2020

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-46270-218-9

Link

Last Update

17-Feb-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Art & Art History

Description

While it might seem as though only one thing is certain about anthropology - namely, that it is in “a permanent identity crisis” (Geertz 2000: 89) - this volume takes a different look at what anthropology is and how it is rendered meaningful. After decades of intense and productive critique of anthropological practices and knowledge production from ‘within’, we address the ways in which anthropology has been reformulated, rethought, and even repractised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. What is anthropology? Where and how is it negotiated? What new understandings of anthropology emerge from beyond the classical fields, practices, institutions, and modi of...