Open AccessWorld Anthropology and its Institutional Challenges: A History of the Transformative Impact of Democratic Internationalisation on the Discipline of Anthropology
Author(s) -
Thomas Reuter
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
lietuvos etnologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-6522
pISSN - 1392-4028
DOI - 10.33918/25386522-1928009
Subject(s) - transformative learning , internationalization , sociology , anthropology , democracy , sociocultural anthropology , equity (law) , diversity (politics) , social science , political science , law , pedagogy , politics , economics , microeconomics
Anthropology reveals a rich diversity of human cultures, while also highlightingour commonalities. The discipline is a distorted mirror of this unityin diversity, however, so long as anthropologists from only a few, privilegedcultures dominate the process of global knowledge construction. The WorldCouncil of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) was founded to addressthis. The WCAA provides a global platform for democratic participationin the spirit of a new ‘world anthropologies’ paradigm, which recognisesthat our understanding of other cultures is perspectivistic, and hence, to befully understood, every culture needs to be contemplated from the multipleperspectives of all ‘anthropologies’.Key words: world anthropologies, World Council of Anthropological Associations,history of anthropology, internationalisation in anthropology, equity in anthropology.