ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vasco De Quiroga, Gonzalo Guerrero
17 Sep 2018
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Begin us immigration assignment (rubric and information on bcourses) - due 10/2. Equality : identity :: difference : inequality. Las casas identifies indians with himself or his own ideal. Las casas proposes a radical relativism and an argument of individual worth. Las casas disputes the means (coercion) but not the end (assimilation of. Las casas is like sepulveda in not accepting that others can be equal but different. They both observe differences but privilege them according to their own criteria as either (i) barbarously evil (sepulveda) or (ii) barbarously good and christian (las casas) Conquest policy: change from rejection to assimilation, enslavement and murder to pacification and colonialism as a means to regulate the conquest. It is not conquest that is to be banished, but the word conquest (pacification) New trinity of agents of colonialism: merchant, priest, scholar. Capitalist, traitor, information seeker (knowledge is power) 500 years of assimilation of rest of the world to europe.
