Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski

Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism

Chandana Mathur, Dorothy Louise Zinn (Herausgeber)

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232 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-476-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Chandana Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is a former Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2016–18) and a former Vice President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2021–23). She has received a Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and a Presidential Award from the American Anthropological Association.

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

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2026
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 6 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-476-X / 183695476X
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-476-7 / 9781836954767
Zustand	Neuware