Open AccessARCHIVES AT THE MARGINS: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology
Author(s) -
JENKS ANGELA C.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca37.3.02
Subject(s) - openness to experience , sociology , social justice , space (punctuation) , applied anthropology , class (philosophy) , pedagogy , anthropology , social science , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
This essay reflects on the academic margins as a space of openness for anthropological teaching and learning. I describe an activity in which students in a medical anthropology course analyzed primary source materials documenting Black health social movements that were curated for the class by a community archive in Los Angeles. Using this example, I explore possibilities for reshaping anthropological teaching toward an engaged, liberatory pedagogy that reconceptualizes knowledge as co‐created, centers marginalized voices and experiences, and links theory to justice‐oriented social action.