3. Power & Control
Marvin Harris has mentioned in !Kung Bushman’s Band-and-village societies, the leadership called headman without formal power and those leaders only use their admiration to convince their clansman to do things. In foraging tribes, reciprocity and redistribution are the ways to reduce risk from hunting, so the returns of hunting should be unspecified and uncalculated, which caused all people in these societies have equal chance to get food and generously share all resources; these egalitarian rules enforced all individuals to obey the social rules, and freeloaders in these societies would be excluded or be cursed by tribe’s shaman as punishment. (Harris, P4) Jack Weatherford also gave an example of Iroquois tribe, which was …show more content…
It also showed that Spanish conquest Pizarro conquered Inca Empire in Peru in 1531, during the time that Inca Empire was devastated by smallpox into a civil war since 1524. After that, the entire Indian population only had about than 5 percent left. (Diamond, P6) Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins mentioned that Spanish colonists had forced local population into peasants to root out their food crop resources and grow cash crops to instead of plots. These colonists paid local peasants with extremely low money for planting cash crops and exported cash crops back to Europe to make unnumbered times of price profits from colonies. At the same time, they also said that colonists controlled almost all plantations from colonies to force people who were getting colonized to pay tax or confiscated their lands and captured more and more people as cheap plantation labors, which had influenced these colonized societies for hundreds of years. (Lappe and Joseph, P2-4) The colonial power’s goals were extracting wealth and resources from colonized places and improving colonial-nations their global power. England developed textile industry to produce wealth from India and created more colonies in India and China. The United States transported slaves from Africa to getting more labors and forced removal native Indian people from their lands enhanced its wealth. (Robbins, P58) England colonialized India and a part of China as its colony. England established British East India Company in India forced those people paid heavy taxes on peasants and craftspeople and planted opium instead of food caused serious starvation. Also, British forced India imported Indian fabrics back to England and allowed them
Marvin Harris has mentioned in !Kung Bushman’s Band-and-village societies, the leadership called headman without formal power and those leaders only use their admiration to convince their clansman to do things. In foraging tribes, reciprocity and redistribution are the ways to reduce risk from hunting, so the returns of hunting should be unspecified and uncalculated, which caused all people in these societies have equal chance to get food and generously share all resources; these egalitarian rules enforced all individuals to obey the social rules, and freeloaders in these societies would be excluded or be cursed by tribe’s shaman as punishment. (Harris, P4) Jack Weatherford also gave an example of Iroquois tribe, which was …show more content…
It also showed that Spanish conquest Pizarro conquered Inca Empire in Peru in 1531, during the time that Inca Empire was devastated by smallpox into a civil war since 1524. After that, the entire Indian population only had about than 5 percent left. (Diamond, P6) Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins mentioned that Spanish colonists had forced local population into peasants to root out their food crop resources and grow cash crops to instead of plots. These colonists paid local peasants with extremely low money for planting cash crops and exported cash crops back to Europe to make unnumbered times of price profits from colonies. At the same time, they also said that colonists controlled almost all plantations from colonies to force people who were getting colonized to pay tax or confiscated their lands and captured more and more people as cheap plantation labors, which had influenced these colonized societies for hundreds of years. (Lappe and Joseph, P2-4) The colonial power’s goals were extracting wealth and resources from colonized places and improving colonial-nations their global power. England developed textile industry to produce wealth from India and created more colonies in India and China. The United States transported slaves from Africa to getting more labors and forced removal native Indian people from their lands enhanced its wealth. (Robbins, P58) England colonialized India and a part of China as its colony. England established British East India Company in India forced those people paid heavy taxes on peasants and craftspeople and planted opium instead of food caused serious starvation. Also, British forced India imported Indian fabrics back to England and allowed them