Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Decentering Anthropology, by Way of Malinowski
Chandana Mathur and Dorothy L. Zinn
Part I: In the Wake of Bronisław Malinowski
Chapter 1. The Center as an Intersection: Following the Malinowski-Masson Collaboration
Daniela Salvucci
Chapter 2. Magic's Transference for National Invented Traditions: Malinowski in Mexico (and Oaxaca)
Ricardo F. Macip
Chapter 3. Gardens in Connections: Plants, Ethnography, and Malinowski's Legacy
Davide Cacchioni
Chapter 4. Malinowski, Kenyatta, and Anthropology in Kenya's Nation Building
Isaac K. Nyamongo
Chapter 5. A Notorious Diarist—Bronisław Malinowski and His Sinful Publics: Polish Editor's Remarks
Grażyna Kubica
Part II: Decentering Malinowski, Decentering Anthropology
Chapter 6. After the "Diary in a Queer Sense of the Term": Anxious Borders between Works and Lives in Anthropology Today
Thomas Strong
Chapter 7. Decolonizing Archival Description: Reviewing Problematic Language in the Malinowski Collection
Emma Pizarro
Chapter 8. Rupture and Social Isolation in Ireland's Asylum System: A Personal Reflection
Abayomi Ogunsanya
Chapter 9. Un-disciplining the "Native": Decolonizing and Disrupting Alterity in Anthropology
Joy Owen
Afterword: Ambivalence: Between Malinowski's Two Anthropological Worlds
Michał Buchowski
Index
