Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the episode, we welcome Dr. Eshe Lewis to discuss her life and learnings as an activist, anthropologist, and storyteller. Eshe walks us through glimpses of her time with Afro-Peruvian women as part of her doctoral research and how this experience transfigured beyond the siloed parameters of academic study into personal, historical, and political realms.
Eshe’s conscious intent of questioning, complicating, and re-positioning anthropology not only as an academic discipline, but a field of ethical practice, casts an inspirational light on the role and reachability of storytelling. Join us as she voices this critical exposure of in-between, multi/cross-lingual modes of communicating—not only as a means of empowerment but as an invitation to lean into joy and awe.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Scissor-tailed Flycatcher by Ben White. The episode-inspired artwork is by Taylor Tinkham.)
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| 1:40.7 | For me, this work on Afro-descendant women, for me, it's a state of an emergency. |
| 1:46.6 | Black women are living in a state of emergency. |
| 1:48.7 | And I thought that it would be tremendously responsible of me. |
| 1:52.9 | And in some ways, just downright disrespectful, to ask these women to share their stories with me |
| 1:59.8 | and then keep it to myself or keep it within academia and therefore |
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