Welcome to Zero Anthropology
Not quite like the anthropology they teach you in schools. This is an ongoing project in producing an anthropology about empire, against empire, after empire. This site introduces you to some of the main themes and sub-projects, with some information about the author.
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The Zero Anthropology Project
Posted on 24 June 2011 | No Comments“Anthropology will survive in a changing world by allowing itself to perish in order to be born again under a new guise.”–Claude Lévi-Strauss, quoted in Lewis (1973, p.586). Anthropology “is... -
The Concept
Posted on 24 June 2011 | No CommentsWhat might Anthropology be like if… it transcended the institutionalized confines of academic knowledge production? in publicly funded education systems, it actually performed in the role of public education? we... -
The End of the Beginning of the End
Posted on 21 June 2011 | No CommentsThe long-stated aim of this project has been to get past anthropology as something that one "does" and more toward engaging anthropology as something to be transformed by shedding its... -
“Potentially Dangerous Implications for the Practice of Anthropology Today”
Posted on 21 June 2011 | No CommentsCircle the Wagons! If the “nativism” that Adam Kuper alleges was spawned by the marriage of American post-modernism and radical political engagement means that only the native can speak for... -
Questions about Colonialism and Anthropology: Epistemology, Methodology, and Politics
Posted on 21 June 2011 | No CommentsTwo Sides of the Same Coin Anthropology might look it came to us with a dual consciousness. On one side, a consciousness influenced by ideals of science and objectivity, driven... -
Stanley Diamond & Claude Lévi-Strauss on the Nature and Future of Anthropology
Posted on 21 June 2011 | No CommentsTwo relatively short articles from the 1960s that I found useful, especially in connection with the previous post, provide a number of insights that exceeded the scope of that post.... -
Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination
Posted on 21 June 2011 | No CommentsPhrases such as “decolonizing anthropology”* and “anthropology and the colonial encounter” have become salient in anthropology especially since they are the titles of two of the better known, most widely...
