INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Romanus Pontifex, Cape Verde, Trans-Cultural Diffusion

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000Y
• Professor: davidnewhouse

Document Summary

1st era: initial contact and establishment of colonies. 2nd era: nation-building by the colonizing powers and the colonies, emerging nation states. 3rd era: on going colonization and neo-colonization. Based on the inside-outside model: permanent center and permanent periphery. Also based on the idea that most human communities are uninventive with the exception of the few that are. The periphery can only receive inventive ideas from the centre. This is one of the fundamental assumptions in western societies. Core, mind, sanity, sorcery, insanity, childhood, discipline etc. Norse in mi"maki 1001-1015, henry sinclair in the 1930"s and many fisher people from portugal, Cristobal colon, aka: christopher columbus, searching for a westward route to india. Finds what is now called the bahamas and taino people. King john ii in portugal 1484, but is turned down. In 1492, queen isabella changes her mind. Spread christianity, compete with portugal over wealth, and to funnel resources.