ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maternal Death, Global Health, Indirect Rule
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Critical discussion in anthropology on global health often focuses on how colonial power over health is still perpetuated or represented in a newer, postcolonial way. Provides a backdrop for how indigenous populations are seen and that can be related to current studies of maternal mortality. Spanish colonizers saw indigenous populations as a resource to be removed or exploited; still kind of seen in the relationship now between government and indigenous communities. Spanish is seen as a more prestigious language, indigenous people who don"t speak. Spanish are already seen as lower: creates classes, during colonization there was a three-tiered hierarchical class system: Latinos , spanish-speaking, south american born, mixed race. Indigenous, not spanish-speaking, not mixed, south american born. Seems ridiculous to take women to state hospitals when the state was the cause of so much suffering as recently as the 80s. Colonialism: the conquest and control of other people"s lands and goods .
