Anthropology › Section S · Indigenous anthropology › Topic S.2
Colonization and anthropology
Anthropology grew up alongside empire, and for a long time it studied colonised peoples without asking what they gained from being studied. Indigenous critics forced the discipline to face that history, and their critique has reshaped how research is done.
In this topic
- A discipline born in empire
- Salvage and the vanishing Indian
- Worked example: reading a Curtis photograph
- Deloria's challenge
- Othering
- Research harms
- Collaborators, not informants
- Frozen in time?
- Worked example: an old field note
- Decolonising anthropology
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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