ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Settler Colonialism
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Much of this book is about the labour to live a good life. : labour both in terms of having an good job and of activism. Necessary to have a good job to survive. Must have activism to preach about equality. Can"t take having a good life for granted. What is settler colonialism: depopulation, transforming population, settler colonialism is deined by a territorial project the accumulation of land. These narratives were and are untrue, of course, but they also exert great inluence on settler people. This includes anthropologists who have historically conducted studies of indigenous peoples that began with the assumption of primitive absence and unsurprisingly, continued to ind that settlement was an inevitable act of civil . What is indigeneity: people that are somehow connected to place. But only certain people and places: people with original claim to land, peoples who"s land was settled, settler colonialism is not over, which is the premise behind the idea of.
