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dark anthropology: a standalone construct

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darkanthropology1 CONSTRUCTDark anthropologyORTNER · CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Cultural anthropology

anthropology focused on the harsh dimensions of social life such as power, domination and inequality.

In cultural anthropology, dark anthropology refers to anthropology focused on the harsh dimensions of social life such as power, domination and inequality. This meaning comes from Ortner (2016) in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.[1]

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  1. Ortner, S. B. (2016). Dark anthropology and its others: Theory since the eighties. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 47-73. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.004

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