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Juliana Friend on Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming

13 Aug, 2019

Juliana Friend on Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming

Juliana Friend published "Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming" in the series "Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley" in Cultural Anthropology! In the article, Juliana recaps a heady discussion over anthropology and social activism.

From the article:

From this session, I learned that an anthropology of/as dreaming must engage in political struggle while fighting efforts to elevate a particular definition of struggle. This is one inspiration I draw from Burton’s statement that the best anthropologists “don’t just document and interpret society—they change it.”

Read the article here!