ANTB19H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4.doc
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Key concepts: colonial rule, participant observation, cultural translation, notion of objectivity. The ottoman empire: large displacements of people. But in this particular case, the breakup of the ottoman empire. British move in to take over, the british-egyptian government (british, Egypt, sudan) they try to bring tribal people under control like the. Americans did: colonial rule and its aftermath. Nineteenth-century administrative and bureaucratic interventions came to play a disruptive role in the lives of people around the world, as they were reconstituted as subjects of colonial rule and emerging nation states. During the first half of the twentieth century, the breakup of empires spawned large-scale displacements of people. Ottoman empire after ww 1 was followed by violence of various forms: structural violence of poverty and the threat of starvation, racist ideologies that led to terror and discrimination, ethno-nationalist exclusions orchestrated by emerging states and empires. Examples: manifest destiny-nationality, which is built around what people claim as their ethnological group.
