Explain relationship between Anthropology and Colonialism

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1. How have we sought to understand Colonialism in this course? (Hint: go beyond the dictionary definition.)

2. Explain the relationship between Anthropology and Colonialism? (Hint: "Dark" history of Anthropology).

3. Armchair anthropologists: Who were they? Explain the type of research they did, and how it is different from the research cultural anthropologists do nowadays.

4. How did European colonialism organize the world? Is this organization over?

5. The following statement belongs to an evolutionary linear thought: "Indigenous populations

6. Who live in the Amazon will stop believing in magic once they become literate." Building on this statement, please explain what a 'linear evolutionary theory" is. How did this way of thinking draw inspiration from Charles Darwin's work on evolution and the survival of the fittest?

7. How does the linear evolutionary theory of history represent humanity? What is the problem with this representation of humanity?

8. How did anthropologists interpret ideas of magic in the early 1900s? and what is wrong about this interpretation?

9. Why is it important to cancel the colonial position whereby Western/modern forms of knowing are considered the only form of knowing?

10. What is scientific racism and how did it build on theories of evolution and eugenics? (Hint: Check Jonathan Mark's article and Human Zoos documentary)

11. What is the relationship between Scientific racism and colonialism?

12. What is eugenics? We mentioned there are two types of Eugenics. Please explain these!

13. What does it mean that race is culturally constructed? Give examples-you can use in-class

14. Because race is culturally constructed..... does it mean it is NOT real? Explain.

15. What does it mean to say that "color" as racial marker was a cultural construction? (hint: the captions in the images I showed in lecture... those were images from the 18th century)

16. I have said the biological notion of race was "powerful"-explain why it was powerful and give examples of what the results of its power were.

17. How was Truman's Point Four related to the notion of Development?

18. What are the characteristics of Development that allowed it to become a powerful and widely accepted policy? You have to talk about consensus and coercion (there are lectures on this!).

19. What is the problem with the notion of Development? (Hint: linear evolution/progress, ethnocentrism, single story, colonialism, etc...)

20. What are some of the contradictions of Development. Refer to Gustavo Esteva's piece "What it means to be underdeveloped)"

21. You must have watched the film Life and Debt to address the questions below:

22. What are Structural Adjustment Programs? (Hint: Free Market, Free Zones, Privatization, Austerity measures.) Give examples from Life and Debt.

23. What is the problem with these programs? How might the notion of underdevelopment represent countries thus labeled?

24. What does the case of Jamaica tell you about the relationship between Development and world inequalities?

25. What kind of industries profited from the economic policies implemented in Jamaica?

26. Would the film Life and Debt represent another form of colonialism? If so, explain How.

27. Reflect about the contradictions of Development. You may draw inspiration from my analogy with chemotherapy.

28. How does the film overlap with the book A small place, by Jamaica Kinkaid? How is it different?

Explain the following quote from Life and Death:

1. "Eventually the masters left, in a kind of way. Eventually the slaves were freed, in a kind of way." Jamaica Kincaid

2. Who are the Awajun-Wampis, and why were they protesting against the Peruvian government? You may use examples from de la Cadena's article Uncommoning Nature and the film When two worlds collide. (must have watched first 55 minutes)

3. Building on de la Cadena's article and my lectures, how should we understand conflicts over nature? And what about the divide between nature/humans or human/non-humans? (Hint: It's a problem of definitions...definitions...)

4. How did the Peruvian government react to Awajun-Wampis' demands? And why? (Hint: think about the similarities between Development and Colonialism...and the idea that we are all moving towards the same destination.)

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