SOSC 2480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eurocentrism
8 Dec 2016
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Mapping africa: looking at africa differently. Other ways to look at africa: historically. Different maps representing a place or its drawings. The interrelationship between those tow, how africa has been represented. Written out of history: many non-whites and africans were literally written out of history as if their stories and live had no relevance in the world. Africa in the world: the 20th century saw the shift and challenged the world that was concentrated with a eurocentric model of history. In the late 20th century a new perspective of world history developed: the local, the regional and the global were considered in the process of writing the accurate history of africa. 2: eurocentrism: a point of view where information and perspectives can only be understood based on their own personal relations, it is universalistic. The primary consequence of this view is it is not humanistic (it treats places differently) How africa views the world: the th(cid:396)ee c(cid:859)s the eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374)s used.
