Time to flood this community with educational memes! We have to meet the people where they are, and memes are the true art form of the people.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    But that doesn't condemn the knowledge to some sort of moral corruption. We can utilize that knowledge, if we understand the material context. The contention of the meme seems to be that we can glean nothing and learn nothing from it.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]M
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      4 years ago

      I would encourage you to read the paper and book in that last frame to see this in more detail (links are here), but they talk about how you totally can use anthropological knowledge, but it's useless and reproduces colonialism if you don't combine that knowledge, critique or none, with material changes for the communities they're about. Decolonization isn't just a metaphor for academic purposes, and if the communities that have been "anthropologicized" aren't given autonomy, land, and some form of reparations, all that "decolonization" is for nothing. It's basically a riff on Marx's famous declaration "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it," but applied to a colonial context.