ANTH 2620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, European Colonialism, Atlantic Ocean
26 Sep 2016
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Hodgson article: maasai: unique image - largely viewed by a romanticize warriors , hurt animals for their economic enjoyment, british settlers - tried to isolate the maasai, and separate them from the rest of africa. Maasai were not involved with the development of africa, and put aside. Saw them as very distinct people: saw them as primitive people, tanzanians started to see maasai and their land as a tourist attraction. Then tourist became more interested in maasai: representation and subjectivity: sees maasai, as a changing state - which helped represent certain images of who the maasai were. Masculinity, not biologically driven, but how it is driven by power. Ethnicity itself, created through interactions with others - interactions with the colonial state. Colonialism: when a foreign power lives in another colony, and takes power of it and shapes and changes the way things are. Post-colonialism: the state a colony is, when the foreign people leave.
