ANTHROPOLOGY AS HISTORY: <i>Thoughts on the 2025 Malinowski Memorial Lecture</i>

‘When ethnography becomes history’, this year's Malinowski Memorial Lecture by Chihab El Khachab, was a tour de force . It had the uncanny effect of taking many of us on a journey through our own personal histories of anthropology as history and the legacy we as ethnographers leave behind. This article examines how the author is trying to manage an archive – her own ethnographic leavings – from fieldwork among wise and acutely politicized people in the Middle East: – in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and Syria.

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Anthropology Today
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2025-08-01
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70004
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Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
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ANTHROPOLOGY AS HISTORY: Thoughts on the 2025 Malinowski Memorial Lecture

Nancy Lindisfarne
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ANTHROPOLOGY AS HISTORY: Thoughts on the 2025 Malinowski Memorial Lecture

Nancy Lindisfarne
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‘When ethnography becomes history’, this year's Malinowski Memorial Lecture by Chihab El Khachab, was a tour de force . It had the uncanny effect of taking many of us on a journey through our own personal histories of anthropology as history and the legacy we as ethnographers leave behind. This article examines how the author is trying to manage an archive – her own ethnographic leavings – from fieldwork among wise and acutely politicized people in the Middle East: – in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and Syria.

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