ANTH 2230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Atlantic Slave Trade, Sex Tourism, Structural Violence
14 Nov 2012
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Caribbean region-anthropologists cut the world into regions as a way to get a more in depth understanding of a particular area. Mobility clouds the true culture and focusing on one culture can be too micro and ignore globalization and how that region interacts globally. The region is a political and geographic term, it is made up, the countries it comprises of are not homogeneous and the region was not always called that. Original inhabitants of the caribbean and european idea of them (peace loving arawak and the warlike taino). The name comes from cannibalism because the original carib people were perceived to be cannibals, the carib people do not call themselves this. European explorers and their writings were full of stereotypes. As soon as the europeans landed they began all forms of domination such as looting, enslaving people, sexual relations and naming the land. Pre-columbian movement-the islands are approx 6000 years old and are in existence because of volcanic activity.
