"The rush to pen departmental and institutional statements of solidarity demonstrated that our existing registers of address were not yet sufficient to the demands of the movement." -@RyanCecilJobson doing what @RyanCecilJobson does. Must read of the day.
The idea of the "contingent project of the human" is something Kai and I have been thinking alot about in light of reparations.
But anyone who does want to "abandon ethnography and become a historian" as the field burns should be encouraged. History is the physics of the humanities and social sciences. Those that don't do the meta work on their own disciple aren't really serious about that discipline.
And have I got some shit on the birth of American anthropology in the colonial Philippines... Dudes were straight up on payroll and infecting every schoolhouse in the P.I. with extractive demands of indigenous knowledge collection to be weaponized by the military occupation.
But the more fundamental epistomological production that anthro has done on narrating a universal 'human' might be more violent still. And of course, Du Bois was doing this kind of meta analysis on history as a field since 1935 (though many now have forgotten i.e. #SHEAR2020)
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