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DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs&nbsp\;Maxwell African Scho
 lars Union&nbsp\;present&nbsp\;Beyond Ethnographic Objectivity:\nIndigenou
 s Anthropologists and Problems of Fieldwork Access in Nigeria&nbsp\;A Talk
  by&nbsp\;Babajide Ololajulo\, Senior Lecturer in the\nDepartment of Archa
 eology and Anthropology\, University of Ibadan\, Nigeria&nbsp\;In this tal
 k\, I draw on my experiences conducting fieldwork at “home” in the Niger D
 elta\nregion of Nigeria to\nexplore concerns that pertain to Nigerian anth
 ropologists carrying out research\nin their home environments. Traditional
  anthropologists had in the past invoked\nthe tenet of ethnographic object
 ivity and other problems of insider research to\nrender the enterprise of 
 ‘anthropology at home’ an inferior brand of the\ndiscipline. The notion of
  the familiar body of the local scholar as devoid of\nsocial and economic 
 opportunities remained dominant in research communities\,\nalong with the 
 idea that this hinders the fieldwork engagements of indigenous\nanthropolo
 gists. In this talk\, I argue instead that the problem of access for\nthe 
 indigenous anthropologist comes with deleterious implications for the\ndec
 olonization of knowledge produced about Africa.Babajide Ololajulo\nis a Se
 nior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology\,\nUnivers
 ity of Ibadan\, Nigeria. He is a development anthropologist with research\
 ninterests ranging over politics of identity\, heritage and memory\, and t
 he\npolitical economy of oil exploration in Nigeria. He has published wide
 ly on\nthese themes. Dr. Ololajulo is an alumnus of the University of Mich
 igan African\nPresidential Scholars program (UMAPS)\, a fellow of the Amer
 ican Council of\nLearned Societies (ACLS-AHP)\, and a Leventis fellow at t
 he School of Oriental\nand African Studies\, University of London. He has 
 also received travel grants\nfrom UK ESRC and SEPHIS to attend workshops i
 n the United Kingdom\, Brazil and\nPeru. His recent book\, Unshared Identi
 ty\npublished by the African Humanities Program\, employs the practice of 
 posthumous\npaternity to explore African endogenous ways of being and mean
 ing-making.&nbsp\;Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, and 
 Maxwell African Scholars Union&nbsp\;Contact Havva Karakas-Keles for more 
 information:&nbsp\;hkarakas@syr.edu
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SUMMARY:Beyond Ethnographic Objectivity: Indigenous Anthropologists and Pro
 blems of Fieldwork Access in Nigeria
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs&nbsp\;
 </p><p>Maxwell African Scholars Union&nbsp\;</p><p>present&nbsp\;</p><p><b
 >Beyond Ethnographic Objectivity:\nIndigenous Anthropologists and Problems
  of Fieldwork Access in Nigeria&nbsp\;</b></p><p>A Talk by&nbsp\;Babajide 
 Ololajulo\, Senior Lecturer in the\nDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropo
 logy\, University of Ibadan\, Nigeria&nbsp\;</p><p>In this talk\, I draw o
 n my experiences conducting fieldwork at “home” in the Niger Delta\nregion
  of Nigeria to\nexplore concerns that pertain to Nigerian anthropologists 
 carrying out research\nin their home environments. Traditional anthropolog
 ists had in the past invoked\nthe tenet of ethnographic objectivity and ot
 her problems of insider research to\nrender the enterprise of ‘anthropolog
 y at home’ an inferior brand of the\ndiscipline. The notion of the familia
 r body of the local scholar as devoid of\nsocial and economic opportunitie
 s remained dominant in research communities\,\nalong with the idea that th
 is hinders the fieldwork engagements of indigenous\nanthropologists. In th
 is talk\, I argue instead that the problem of access for\nthe indigenous a
 nthropologist comes with deleterious implications for the\ndecolonization 
 of knowledge produced about Africa.</p><p>Babajide Ololajulo\nis a Senior 
 Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology\,\nUniversity o
 f Ibadan\, Nigeria. He is a development anthropologist with research\ninte
 rests ranging over politics of identity\, heritage and memory\, and the\np
 olitical economy of oil exploration in Nigeria. He has published widely on
 \nthese themes. Dr. Ololajulo is an alumnus of the University of Michigan 
 African\nPresidential Scholars program (UMAPS)\, a fellow of the American 
 Council of\nLearned Societies (ACLS-AHP)\, and a Leventis fellow at the Sc
 hool of Oriental\nand African Studies\, University of London. He has also 
 received travel grants\nfrom UK ESRC and SEPHIS to attend workshops in the
  United Kingdom\, Brazil and\nPeru. His recent book\, <i>Unshared Identity
 </i>\npublished by the African Humanities Program\, employs the practice o
 f posthumous\npaternity to explore African endogenous ways of being and me
 aning-making.&nbsp\;</p><p>Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affai
 rs\, and Maxwell African Scholars Union&nbsp\;</p><p>Contact Havva Karakas
 -Keles for more information:&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:hkarakas@syr.edu">hkara
 kas@syr.edu</a><br></p>
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