ANTHRO 169B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnocentrism
23 May 2017
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Tuhiwai smith provokes us to understand that all is based on these colonial binaries. *build a capacity for observation that works with anti-colonization (ethical perspectives) Draw hist. dawn into colonized world, show relation between knowledge, research and. Modernity focuses on the individual (overthrew feudal-absolutist monarchs) capacity to reason attained through education (through systematic form of organized knowledge). Exploration and discovery (of europe to other worlds) expansion of trade colonization systematic enslaving/colonization of individuals. Classification of indigenous peoples influenced their attainment of white knowledge systems (superiority). Reference to collections: collection of artifacts = stealing cultural and ancestral remains. Globalization of knowledge and constant reaffirmation of western superiority & legitimate knowledge (civilized). This form is referred to as universal knowledge available to all until non-western scholars make claims to it. Revision of history is made so history of civilization remains the story of the west. Schooling system: reproduced domestic versions of uncritical consumption: colonizing the disciplines:
