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May 6, 2021 · Few topics in the discipline of anthropology are as important, and controversial, as colonialism. The historical origins of anthropology are rooted in the colonial enterprise, thus forever linking colonialism and anthropology. As such, colonialism is one of the most widely explored and written about subjects in the history of anthropology.
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The giant composite field of colonialism and postcolonialism studies has had a transforming effect on virtually every academic field in the humanities and social sciences. Anthropologists have been particularly innovative users of its multidisciplinary perspectives, and have responded with vigour and creativity when accused by practitioners of its ...
Within and beyond anthropology, ‘colonial’ is now mainly used for the transformations wrought by high modern empire, i.e. for contexts of Western conquest and rule in the age of globally expansive commercial and industrial capitalism. Some 80 to 90 percent of the global landmass and a majority of the world’s population had come under direct or indi...
Postcolonialism has become an equally pervasive term, especially in studies of the enduring after-effects of colonial rule and the oppressive ‘necropolitics’ of post-independence states and elites (Chakrabarty 1992; Mbembe 2001; Sarkar 1985). Poststructuralist identity and language theory have been key resources for this work, initially through the...
Colonialism became a major scholarly concern in the late 1970s, while postcolonialism came to prominence in the 1980s. Both singly and together, their embrace signalled an attack on perspectives deemed outmoded and inadequate for an understanding of the global world order. A particular target for such challenges has been the concept of imperialism,...
So do studies of colonialism and postcolonialism have a future in a world now widely said to require the multidimensional framings provided by today’s high-profile theorists of globalization and cosmopolitanism? One sign of the rich potential still offered by the colonialism/postcolonialism field’s tools and perspectives is its elasticity, as in th...
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Susan Bayly is Professor of Historical Anthropology in the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on colonialism and its cultural afterlife in Asia’s former French and British colonies. She regularly conducts ethnographic research in Vietnam as part of a larger compar...
Oct 10, 2024 · It is important to recognize that the spread of Christianity through colonialism was not always a voluntary process, but rather one that involved coercion and violence in many cases. Power and Prestige. Finally, colonialism was attractive to countries because it allowed for the accumulation of power and prestige.
Colonialism gave anthropology a chance to keep rectifying itself. Therefore, while anthropology was used, it also produced new thoughts and self-reflection on its practice to make itself more neutral and more scientific. With the rise and fall of colonialism, the problems facing anthropology have gradually expanded.
Given the significance of anthropology as a tool in Western man's search for self-understanding, it was an important methodological assumption that the study of the "primitive" or non-Western world could take place only from the vantage point of the West-erner or outsider. Anthropology, as Levi-Strauss
Apr 28, 2021 · Anthropology began as a colonial science, the product of a settler colonialism uniquely focused on the study of the languages, history, culture, and biology of non-European peoples seen as ‘primitive,’ or ‘ancient’ all around the world. Anthropology was, until recently, primarily the study of the exotic ‘other’ in space or time, an ...
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If we are now in a position to overcome that denial by doing the anthropology of colonialism as an anthropology of anthropology, this indicates that, after Humboldt, we are capable or in need of separating ourselves from a phase in which anthropology and colonial rule were part of the same social formation: the world of modernity, development ...
