SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Ethnocide, Syncretism
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Definition: record of events that took place in the past particularly in human affairs. Mediation: key component of our historical narratives, history always comes to us via someone else. Picture - all things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is function of power not truth. Context can shape how history is told and also whose history it told. It is not exact science: written by victors, people who conquered and colonized turned into slaves. We are all informed by the world in particular ways. Liberationist thought: critical theorists, philosophers theologians, and historians challenging official histories, central and south american 1960"s, enrique dussel (liberation philosopher, emphasizing those who suffer, oppression, shift historical focuses away from the colonizers, and those who were colonized. Colonialism: policy or practice of requiring full or partial control over another country and exploiting that country economically.
