Anthropology Terms
Ethnography, participant-observation, interviews, oral history collection, surveys all belong to this broad category of research.
What is qualitative research?
This theory from Black studies disrupts the idea of linear time to say that events and situations that happened in the 'past' still affect Black folks in the present.
What is the afterlife of slavery?
This approach to ethnography relies on theorizing the self and one's personal experiences.
What is autoethnography?
This is the one Black woman anthropologist you should all know, given she represents the model for Black feminist anthropology. She's also a well-known novelist and folklorist.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Data show that this group of scholars end up with jobs outside anthropology departments, even though their degrees are in anthropology.
Who are Black anthropologists?
Curiosity, reflection, listening, flexibility, sincerity, and genuine relationships are all necessary components when completing this kind of research.
What is ethnography?
Michael Ralph theorized this well-known term as a way to connect finance and violence.
What is 'defund the police'?
Ariana Curtis is committed to highlighting the diversity of this group in her curatorial work.
What are Latinx communities?
John L. Jackson, Jr. becomes this alter-ego version of himself when he is conducting ethnographic research.
Who is Anthroman?
White, male, heterosexual researchers are just assumed to embody this positionality when they do fieldwork. This is something that women of color write against consistently.
This is how anthropologists talk about family.
What is kinship?
When detailing his time during fieldwork in NY, John L. Jackson, Jr. theorizes these opposite ways of thinking about race work and ethnographic work.
What are sincerity and authenticity?
Amy Shepard uses this color in her paintings to represent the skin tone of her subjects.
What is gray?
This Black performance scholar is currently the Dean of the School of Communication at Northwestern University.
Who is E. Patrick Johnson?
Christina Sharpe wrote a scathing review of a hella problematic sociological ethnography conducted in this northern city.
What is Philadelphia?
These are the four fields of anthropology.
Cultural/socio-cultural - linguistic - biological - archaeology
This intervention in the discipline seeks to disrupt the institutional racism and sexism that have come to define it.
What is Black feminist anthropology?
This qualitative approach captures the words of participants themselves, as they tell their own personal histories.
What is oral history?
Brendane Tynes and Alyssa James, two Black anthropologists still in grad school, have created this podcast to analyze pop culture events through a Black feminist lens.
What is the Zora's Daughters Podcast?
Ashanté Reese describes the importance of naming "The Sugar Land 95," who died during what period in Texas history.
What is convict leasing?
This is known as the body of research that every incoming scholar should know to provide the foundation for Anthropology. Black feminists say they have to build their own.
What is the canon?
This approach, theorized by a group of women who were all in grad school at UT-Austin, aims to address the racialized-sexualized-gendered violence that often occurs during fieldwork and in the academy.
What is fugitive anthropology?
This southern university is known for an anthropology graduate program that specializes in activist anthropology and African Diaspora anthropology.
The phrase 'afterlife of slavery' has been attributed to this Black feminist scholar.
Who is Saidiya Hartman?
This daughter of a famous playwright encountered issues in the field when her own ethnographic research was used against the students and teachers she was writing about and for.
Who is Savannah Shange?