I dunno in the Americas, but where I studied it, Anthropological teachers were very self critical issues of imperialism, power differential, racism etc. and how they've been embedded in the discipline's History. That's where I first learned how to start being self conscious about my own privilege, institutional ways that racism etc. work in ways we are not always conscious. Which doesn't mean it was perfect and not with a lot of problem as well, of course; but I had never encountered any of those ideas or how to think them anywhere before (and outside of what I've learned on the internet not since). No other disciplines seem to be as self-conscious and to problematize themselves and their own position that much that I can see.
One of the main text we studied was about reversing the gaze. Favret Saada's Les Mots, La Mort, Les Sorts.
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I dunno in the Americas, but where I studied it, Anthropological teachers were very self critical issues of imperialism, power differential, racism etc. and how they've been embedded in the discipline's History. That's where I first learned how to start being self conscious about my own privilege, institutional ways that racism etc. work in ways we are not always conscious.
Which doesn't mean it was perfect and not with a lot of problem as well, of course; but I had never encountered any of those ideas or how to think them anywhere before (and outside of what I've learned on the internet not since). No other disciplines seem to be as self-conscious and to problematize themselves and their own position that much that I can see.
One of the main text we studied was about reversing the gaze. Favret Saada's Les Mots, La Mort, Les Sorts.