Decolonizing US anthropology: A view from India.

They approach the issue of decolonization via an exercise in speculative history that maps the paths US anthropology has not taken and seek to imagine what it could have been if those sidelined themes were taken up and engaged with that gives full play to the "forgotten branches" of US anthropology. These periodic disciplinary anxieties, characterized even as "writing against anthropology" (Lewis [12], xiii), signal the discipline's robust critical and democratic credentials and are an essential element in addressing anthropology's epistemological and methodological tenets in light of changed political and social circumstances. In their presidential address at the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, Akhil Gupta and Jessie Stoolman outlined a wide-ranging statement for decolonizing US anthropology. [Extracted from the article]