ANTHROPOLOGY: “BASTARD CHILD” OF IMPERIALISM’S COMING OF AGE AT THE DAWN OF 21ST CENTURY

Complexities of power/knowledge relationships are widely recognized, theorized and examined in multiplicities of contexts in social sciences and humanities. In this presentation I will, however briefly, examine how and why anthropology, often referred to as the bastard child of nineteenth century Western imperialism, has transformed itself at the dawn of twenty first century, at least according to the American Anthropological Associations...