Practice question · Put in order
Order the stages in the making of the discipline.
- Post-colonial critique asks who gets to describe whom
- Multi-sited ethnography follows people and things across the globe
- Malinowski makes long-term fieldwork the professional standard
- Armchair scholars compile travelers’ and missionaries’ reports
- Museum expeditions collect artifacts en masse
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- Armchair reading came before anyone lived alongside their subjects.
- The critical turn against the colonial gaze came last.
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- Armchair scholars compile travelers’ and missionaries’ reports
- Museum expeditions collect artifacts en masse
- Malinowski makes long-term fieldwork the professional standard
- Post-colonial critique asks who gets to describe whom
- Multi-sited ethnography follows people and things across the globe
Why
From reading about "natives" to living with hosts to questioning the whole colonial gaze: each stage rebuilt the discipline’s evidence and its ethics.
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