I'm a global south student (Mauritian - doing history, language & socio A level), currently choosing my major; between politics and anthropology and politics and history and anthropology was my initial choice but reading up on the origins of anthropology(or how it was used) I'm double guessing my initial choice but initial because our culture is such a melting pot that studying how decoloniality will work for us is very complicated unless we study us in depth across our different origins. Unless I'm wrong on this, I don't feel like simply studying history will be enough. Plus, we're one of those people who're barely considered anywhere (by that, I mean, exactly how decoloniality will work for us as we're not indigenous to this land yet we're still brown and black with a history of slavery & indentured labourers & white masters.)
I want to understand the dynamics of pre-coloniality to coloniality to post-coloniality (essentially decoloniality) of cultures (& as beyond cultures as possible, thus history not feeling enough) but I have come across...debates saying anthropology can't be decolonized; in that regards are we talking about how anthropology is studied here? Or methodologies & how anthropological researches are used? (Feel free to explain it please, I'm open to understanding.)
And what if anthropological researches were instead used for decoloniality? To... promote (i don't like this word but for lack of any other) ancestral ways of living instead of eurocentric ones? (As i have informally observed how colonial chauvinist our current ways of life/culture is.)
Ps: since I'm a student (I'll forever be one), I don't know much about anything so I hope people don't pick on what might seem like naive question? I'll be thankful, especially if my confusions are cleared in good faith. Thank you!