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Abstract. Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For example, the role of "objective outsider" with its resultant professional exploitation of subject ...
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May 6, 2021 · Colonialism, which started in the late 15th century, is one of the fundamental social, cultural, and political forces that shaped our contemporary world. It is one of the phenomena that have structured modernity with regard to racial and economic hierarchies, which continues to have profound effects on communities worldwide.
The traditional anthropologist's syndrome, defined. by the roles of colonizer, outsider, and "objective" observer, was adaptive to an era now fading. The era of Western colonization and white supremacy is currently being challenged by revolutionary wars of liberation and revolutionary modes of thinking.
This unique relationship is a double-sword. While colonialism brought pain to indigenous people and superior delusion western people, it also shaped anthropology’s methods with the objection, practices with self-censorship, and questions with a broad expanse of thinking. As we have talked about in the beginning, anthropology should be a ...
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- Colonialism
- Postcolonialism
- Transforming Events and Resistance
- Colonialism and Postcolonialism Today
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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...
Middle India. K S Singh. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the conceptual framework which has governed the. study of tribal societies in general. It then goes on to consider the relationship between history and. anthropolgy, and between colonialism and anthropo!ogy. It d,escribes the nature of the colonial trans- formation of the ...
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The anthropology of colonialism is also ANTHROPOLOGY OF COLONIALISM 165 always an anthropology of anthropology, because in many methodological, organizational, and professional aspects the discipline retains the shape it received when it emerged from—if partly in opposition to—early twentiethcentury colonial circumstances.
