• DOI:10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141
Corpus ID: 221063562

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}
}

• Jonatan Kurzwelly, N. Rapport, A. Spiegel
• Published 2020
• Philosophy
• Anthropology Southern Africa

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… Expand

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