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On conquest and anthropology in South Africa
South African Journal on Human Rights ( IF 0.806 ) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 , DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2018.1543840
Anjuli Webster 1
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Abstract Despite Archie Mafeje’s insistence in 1998 that anthropology is incompatible with the intellectual and political project of independent Africans,1 anthropology remains a robust discipline in South Africa. Mafeje’s critique did not simply examine the historical political and pragmatic complicity of anthropology in colonial administration, but identified and interrogated anthropology’s epistemological collaboration in conquest and colonialism in Africa. In this paper, I take up Mafeje’s critique of anthropology, reading it into a history of the discipline at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. I argue that despite apparent paradigm shifts in anthropological praxis over the last century, the underlying settler colonial schema and internal tropes of the discipline endure largely intact in the present. To support this contention, I trace continuities in anthropological praxis from the ‘colonial past’ into the ‘constitutional present’, delineating the silencing of conquest and settler colonialism by anthropology.

中文翻译:

南非的征服与人类学

摘要 尽管 Archie Mafeje 在 1998 年坚持认为人类学与独立的非洲人的智力和政治项目不相容1,但人类学在南非仍然是一门强大的学科。Mafeje 的批评并没有简单地考察人类学在殖民管理中的历史政治和务实共谋,而是确定和质疑人类学在非洲征服和殖民主义中的认识论合作。在这篇论文中,我接受了 Mafeje 对人类学的批判,将其解读为南非威特沃特斯兰德大学的学科史。我认为,尽管在上个世纪人类学实践发生了明显的范式转变,但该学科的潜在定居者殖民图式和内部比喻在今天基本完好无损。
更新日期:2018-09-02
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