Essays about: "anti-essentialism"
Found 2 essays containing the word anti-essentialism.
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1. A Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom
University essay fromAbstract : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. READ MORE
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2. Essentially Constructed : On Anti-Essentialism and Social Constructionism in Contemporary Anthropological Theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : Essentialism is an unpopular word in contemporary anthropology. One would probably be hard pressed to find an anthropologist who would adopt any traditional essentialist position. Indeed, uses of the word "essentialism" occasionally seem little different from the uses of a derogative. READ MORE