INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Local Natives, Hutu, Tutsi

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Darin Barney

Document Summary

Institutionalized traditions and cultures and re-defined by colonial masters. The colonizers do: created customary law, local elites created: however, these ideas/elitist groups are appointed by colonial powers, canada: indigenous populations, colonizers created more centralized local divisions, ignored tradition of local leadership. Because colonialists created such a hierarchical division among groups. In post-colonial era, these groups struggle over resources: created conflict and violence: his argument. Idea of race: different from ethnicity now in contemporary world. Post-colonial identity: political division among chinese, malays, indians, ethnic categories became politicized, politicized: identity became emotional, struggle for resources, political identity. Interesting issue: sd ideology behind museum: who displayed these cultural items: colonialists, different native groups, women make ear lobes: make it very long. Maps/borders: there are informal border crossings, when colonizers demarcated borders in 1909: colonists build a hut to facilitate border crossing: artificial state boundary in beginning of colonialism, no one questioned it.