Tracing the Development of Queer Anthropology
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ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Tracing the Development of Queer Anthropology
Lydia Toorenburgh: PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, UVic
Monday, November 16th, 2026
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
COR B235
Early white European and American anthropologists encountered diverse gender and orientation identities and expressions in Indigenous communities worldwide. Their analyses of such diversity laid the foundation for today’s subfield of queer anthropology. In this lecture, we will characterize and trace the progression of the subfield’s “theoretical eras” and their attendant theories, language, and concepts, starting with Margaret Mead’s “deviant” to today’s decolonial interventions by BIPOC scholars. Queer anthropology’s legacy of self-critique and re-definition provides useful provocations for other subfields to challenge norms, binaries, and conventions in their own research.
EVERYONE WELCOME
Tracing the Development of Queer Anthropology
Lydia Toorenburgh: PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, UVic
Monday, November 16th, 2026
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
COR B235
Early white European and American anthropologists encountered diverse gender and orientation identities and expressions in Indigenous communities worldwide. Their analyses of such diversity laid the foundation for today’s subfield of queer anthropology. In this lecture, we will characterize and trace the progression of the subfield’s “theoretical eras” and their attendant theories, language, and concepts, starting with Margaret Mead’s “deviant” to today’s decolonial interventions by BIPOC scholars. Queer anthropology’s legacy of self-critique and re-definition provides useful provocations for other subfields to challenge norms, binaries, and conventions in their own research.
EVERYONE WELCOME
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UVic Anthropology, Skyline, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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