ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ethnocide, Acculturation, Syncretism
29 Aug 2020
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There have been 14,000 wars in he past 5,000 years. In the 20th century, 150 million people are estimated to have died from warfare. Traditionally attributed to the chinese general and military strategist sun tzu in the 5th. If you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a century bc single loss . Acculturation: major cultural change that occurs with domination by more powerful society. Ethnocide: an extreme form of acculturation, killing an ethnicity. Genocide: extermination of a group of people based on their ethnic/cultural identity. How do people resists being dominated: rebellion and revolution, civil disobedience, revitalization, syncretism. Warfare: organized aggression between autonomous political units. What are some of the theories discussed: biological: human nature, xenophobia, territoriality, male competition for mates or prestige, materialist: need for land (agriculture) and food, other cultural: revenge, feuds, personal honor.
