Delmos Jones (1 Jan 1936 Jahr – 11 St. 33 Min, 9 Nov 2024 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

ABOUT
- American, PhD at Cornell, taught at CUNY Graduate Center
- fieldwork among the Lahu in Thailand, indigenous Australians, and urban community organizers in the US
- challenged supposed political neutrality of anthropology, focusing on the politics of social research
- influenced by upbringing as a sharecropper, picking cotton in rural Alabama

MAJOR WORKS
- The Politics of Anthropology (1969)
- The Anthropologist as Native: Studying One's Own (1970)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- early critique of colonialism
- positionality and reflexivity
- advocacy for activist and engaged anthropology

CRITIQUES
- critics from more positivist traditions in anthropology have raised concerns that Jones' emphasis on subjectivity and activism undermines the scientific foundations of the discipline
- an overly politicized anthropology could compromise the analytical precision needed to produce reliable research, potentially turning anthropology into a form of political advocacy rather than an academic discipline
- anthropology should balance political activism with rigorous scholarship

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