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- 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.
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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.
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May 6, 2021 · Third, anthropologists articulate the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Fourth, anthropology focuses on resistance to colonialism, highlighting the everyday acts of the colonized in the struggle to overcome colonial rule.
Colonialism and anthropology are a mutually supportive relationship. Although anthropology became a tool for colonists to expand colonial powers and self-justify, it also developed unique methods, practices, and questions under colonialism’s effects.
The paper considers the traditional relationship between anthropology and its nonwhite subject mat-ter. It explores some of the historical conditions and assumptions upon which this relationship was based and examines their effect on theory and method in anthropology. Finally, it suggests an alternative to the present approach as a means of ...
- Introduction
- Colonialism
- Postcolonialism
- Transforming Events and Resistance
- Colonialism and Postcolonialism Today
- References
- Note on Contributor
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...
Relate how anthropology has aided colonialism and propose some ways these practices may be reversed. Anthropology has been criticized by numerous anthropologists and other scholars as participating in the colonization of Indigenous societies.
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Because one cannot simply demarcate a past colonialism from struggles in the present (Dirks 1992b, Thomas 1994), the anthropology of colonialism systematically interrogates contemporary anthropology as well as the colonial circumstances from which it emerged.
