ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Said, Terra Nullius, Deterritorialization
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Culture refers to customs that define a particular group, and those customs can be observed in all people or culture. Homogenous internally, territorially bounded, physically bounded, etc nations, citizen, race. Flows of capital, persons, commodities, technologies, images and idea. Colonialism is caught up in settlement (settler coloinialism) Terra nullius: the land is virgin, to refer to "nobodies land", land right for taking for settling, farming, cultivating etc. It"s a worldwide process, happens in different ways in different countrie. In north america, fur was a big source of trade, timber, eventually coa. A part of an economic system of extraction, extraction of labour, crops, how those connect to world economy. Once slave trade ends other forms of labour start to come up. When india became a part of british monarch, for a long time a company ruled india alongside britain. Indirect colonial rule: ex is how the trading company took over india.
