A man from the Navajo Reservation in Colorado asks the activist, “what tribe do you come from? You call yourself an Indian, but you don’t live on any rez!” [essentialist]
The Indian activist: “What the hell kind of Indian are you? I don’t recall seeing you at the Seige of Alcatraz? I don’t remember your face from Wounded Knee.” [processualist cum essentialist]
(Anti-anti-essentialism. 1 « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY)
When you can't live without bananas
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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