Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism
@article{Kurzwelly2020EncounteringEA, title={Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism}, author={Jonatan Kurzwelly and N. Rapport and A. Spiegel}, journal={Anthropology Southern Africa}, year={2020}, volume={43}, pages={65 - 81} }
Essentialism manifests itself in a diversity of forms and is used in multiple ways. Yet it is always potentially dangerous — even when it is mobilised strategically and in apparently worthy forms for purposes of overcoming oppressive structures. As the first in a collection of articles focused on various manifestations of essentialism, this article offers a brief historical outline of how social anthropology deployed essentialist thinking, even amongst its canonical exponents. It examines how… CONTINUE READING
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