AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Evolutionism, Ethnocentrism, Neocolonialism
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Anthro lecture january 23 if the group could be easily colonized, they were good, if not, they were. British new guinea: many countries have been exploited for centuries. Colonial cities: conquered places in which colonial administrators, merchants and local elites defended their own interest, exploiting local population as labor force. Since the men were forced to work to pay the taxes, they took over the women"s jobs (textile workers, etc. ) Neocolonialism: the persistence of profound social and economic entanglements linking former colonial territories to their former colonial rulers despite political sovereignty, dependence still exists today because of the prior colonies (debts) Morgan (1818-1881): evolutionist: said that every society went through 3 stages in evolution, savagery, barbarism, civilization. Colonizers claimed that people lower on the scale were being helped by colonization, that they were educating them and helping them become civilized, when really they were just exploiting them. They are ethnocentric because they base everything on western values.
