Faye V. Harrison (1 janv. 1950 – 17 h 54 min, 25 juin 2025 ans)

Description:

About:
- American, PhD at Stanford and taught at U of Tennessee, U of Florida, & U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- fieldwork in Jamaica, UK, & the US
- highly influential in Black feminist anthropology and foundational in the move to decolonize anthropology
- draws from political economy, critical race theory, and feminist theory to examine global systems of power

Major Works:
- "Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation" (1991)
- "Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age" (2008)

Contributions:
- decolonizing anthropology
- black feminist anthropology; "outsider within"
- anthropology and human rights

Critiques:
- Harrison's approach may be idealistic
- potentially blurring the line between scholarship and advocacy
- focus on black feminist anthropology may limit the applicability of her theories

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