Regimes of Difference: Otherness, Racism and Anthropology - Detailseite

The emergence conditions of a scientific discipline imply the delimitation of a specific knowledge field and a sphere of application of this knowledge through specific methods, techniques, and instruments. In the specific case of Anthropology, its emergence conditions are closely linked to the processes of coloniality. The latter involved social, political, and economic aspects where the construction of the "Other" was the initial condition and legitimization of the subalternisation of individuals, their ways of being and knowing.

Over time, the differential construction of individuals assumed various discursive forms (race, class, culture, etc.), all being taxonomic devices that naturalized a hierarchical order of individuals, generated identities and strengthen colonial difference.

In this context, this seminar explores the close links between the delimitation of Anthropology's disciplinary field and the trajectories of the difference discursive regimes, the “otherness” as legitimization of anthropological practice and knowledge, the genealogy of the society of normalization as a nuclear part of the modern/colonial world-system, the role of museums and universities in the constitution, reproduction and dissemination of the coloniality of knowledge, the spaces of coloniality, the materiality of the imaginaries of difference and finally the variation and continuity of racial, epistemic and cultural hierarchies.

Findet im Rahmen des normalen Lehrprogrammes am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie statt, ÜWP Studierende können zusätzlich teilnehmen.

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