Week 9: Alternatives to egalitarianism
ANTH 3623: Reconciling justice with anthropology (Semester 1,
2026)
April 27, 2026
Main reading: Haruyama (2024)
Other reading: Ferguson (2013); Graeber (2007)
Notes
None
References
Ferguson, James. 2013. “Declarations of Dependence: Labour,
Personhood, and Welfare in Southern Africa.” Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (2): 223–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12023.
Graeber, David. 2007. “Oppression.” In Possibilities:
essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire, 255–98. Edinburgh: AK
Press.
Haruyama, Justin. 2024. “Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair: The
Curse of Ham, Biblical Kinship, and the Limits of Liberalism.”
Cultural Anthropology 39 (1): 118–45. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca39.1.06.