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Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski

Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism

Edited by Chandana Mathur and Dorothy Louise Zinn

232 pages, 6 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-476-7 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-477-4 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This book has a wonderful concept—it is a great idea to consider Malinowski’s contributions to anthropology from the perspective of 2025, a century after Argonauts of the Western Pacific was published. The introduction is terrific in setting forth the book’s argument.” • Gordon Mathews, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropologies and the decolonization of anthropological knowledge, production, and careers. Despite (and because of) the publication of his diaries (Malinowski 1967), Malinowski remains part of an equivocal global anthropological tradition. Featuring scholars across various locations, genders and generations, this book neither celebrates nor “cancels” Malinowski. Instead, it offers an eccentric space of reconsideration and a prism for reflecting on power configurations in anthropology today.

Chandana Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is a former Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2016–18) and a former Vice President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2021–23). She has received a Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and a Presidential Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Dorothy Louise Zinn is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her recent works include Migrants as Metaphor (2018) and The Public Value of Anthropology (edited with E. Tauber, 2015). She has also published annotated translations of two monographs by Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, The Land of Remorse (2005) and Magic: A Theory from the South (2015).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Theory and Methodology


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