ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Eurocentrism
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Readings: eric wolf, introduction. europe and the people without history. 3-7: critique of nations as bounded, homogeneous communities. Non-european peoples active participants in historical developments, rather than passive, static, and unchanging cultures. People without history refers to the other left out of eurocentric historical narratives: eurocentrism: a form of vestigial thinking that structures current practices and permeates contemporary representations, after the formal end of colonialism. Imagined euroamerican superiority y y naturalized as common sense y nation: based divisions between us and them. Critique: y philosophy, literature, history, and the arts - associated with europe. y europe is viewed as the world s centre.
