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Studying in: inequities within anthropology

Anthropology studies inequality in other people's lives, but it has also helped produce inequality. Studying in means turning the discipline's tools on itself: its history, its collections, whose knowledge it credits, and how it can do better.

In this topic

  • Turning the lens around
  • Critiques from inside and outside
  • Uncredited collaborators and sidelined scholars
  • Race in anthropology's past and present
  • Human remains in collections
  • Worked example: was the bias in the measurements?
  • The MOVE remains, 1985 to 2021
  • Decolonising anthropology
  • Worked example: auditing a research plan
  • Common mistakes to avoid
  • Key takeaways

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