ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Syncretism, Alterity
23 Jan 2017
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Lecture 4: aztec and spanish experience of alterity (the state of being different) The spaniards absorb the other into their internal system at the lowest level. Intransigence (refusal to compromise, resistance to change) has always defeated tolerance. Refusing to recognize the other as different, but equal. Syncretism: a mixing of elements that produces a third. An overlay: the various layers penetrate through each other. Importance in the history of colonialism because it refers to the notion that native religions are repressed. Incorporate one"s religions into that of the oppressor"s religion. Difference: outcomes are different; native: promotion of other deity and spanish: degradation of other as animal. Conquest tactics based on the control of information. Policy of colonization based ideologically on doctrine of inferiority of natives. The understanding that kills and possibility of understanding that respects. 25 million in mexico (1500) --> (1600) 1 million. Economic murder - paying tribute, slaves to work in the mines, taking away of the livelihood.
