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12 Cards in this Set
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The Roots of Canadian Anthropolog:
- Who studied Native peoples as “windows into pre-historic European past?” - Who provided greater context for the experiences of native peoples? - Who is known for ethnographic work and the development of American Indian ethno-history? - What are Three Major Influences on Canadian Anthropology? |
- Sir Daniel Wilson - Thomas McIlwraith - A.G. Bailey |
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Colonialism, Capitalism, and “Modernity”:
What is Colonialism? What is imperialism? |
- The cultural domination of a people by larger, wealthier powers - A system in which one country controls other, less powerful territories through colonization, often augmented my military force |
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What is capitalism? What does it make into conversion? What does it reduce people to? From production for use (___________) to production for exchange in the market. |
- An economic system dominated by a supply and demand market designed to create capital and profit
- Conversion of all things (ideas, objects) into commodities to be sold for a price - Reduction of people to commodities - From production for use (subsistence) to production for exchange in the market |
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Capitalism had ___________ effects on small-scale societies. _________ were given to trading communities to explore and exploit new lands. How are Jamestown and the Hudson's Bay Company relevant to this?
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- devastating - charters - Jamestown: first British settlement in the United States of America; interest in trade and colonization and the repression of natives - Hudson’s Bay Company: interest in trade but manipulated native peoples |
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What are some examples (5) of capitalism that disrupted the daily lives of Canadian Natives? |
- The fur trade
-The fish and hare period - Spanish flu pandemic Cultural genocide—residential schools for native children - “White Man’s Burden” to colonize, rule and civilize people viewed as “savages” |
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What is Modernity?
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Modernization of technology and ideas
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What does "Colonial Political Economy" mean? Is this a holistic term? How does the Colonial Political Economy connect and work with surrounding colonies?
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A holistic term that emphasizes the centrality of material interest (economy) in the organization of society and the use of power (politics) to protect and enhance that interest.
- Connecting conquered communities with one another within a conquered territory. - Connecting different conquered territories with one another. - Connecting all conquered territories with the country of the colonizers. |
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What is the central method of cultural anthropology?
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Participant observation |
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Was anthropology "applied colonialism?" Who disagreed with this idea? What did he say?
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Talal Asad disagrees: Anthropological findings were too specialized; administrative concerns and interests of anthropologists were not the same.
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Why did Talal Asad say that the interest of anthropologists were not all the same? |
- ambiguous roles of all anthropologists |
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What is decolonization and what is neo-colonialsm? How are they related? What spurred from these classifications and appeared in the modern world?
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- Decolonization did not end ties
- Neo-colonialism—the persistence of ties - Creation of first, second, third, and fourth worlds |
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Evolutionary Typologies: The Nineteenth Century
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