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. Please 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

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?

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

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

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

9. What is wrong if we say: "Sorcery lions are a belief [mere symbols of distress]-they really do not exist. Muedans belief in magic, that is why they think they exist-but they really do not."

10. Had colonial ways of thinking permeated Harry West's analysis? How?

11. 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)

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

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

14. What does it mean that race is culturally constructed? Give examples-you can use in-class examples, and other examples as well. Because race is culturally constructed..... does it mean it is NOT real?

15. Explain.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) 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.

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