ANTHRO 3AC Lecture 3: Lecture 3.1 - Equality: Identity: Difference: Inequality
26 Sep 2018
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Fake posts quiz: feminism: left, latin american heritage: right, african-american issues: right. In general, (i) the defenders of inequality corrupt difference into inequality. = inferiority => genocide, enslavement, erasure of various kinds. Viewed as inferiority by nature (ii) the defenders of equality corrupt equality into identity. = assimilation => imposition of christianity, spanish culture and rule: the doctrine of inequality. Us society has always been involved with this debate. Ideologies of colonial domination has transformed the world over the next few centuries. We do not know whether to laugh or cry at the absurdity of it. -las casas. Legal basis to the conquest: francisco de vitoria. Supplies the legal basis to wars of colonization. Impose the good: oviedo (priest conquistador and historian) Killing justified because god [is] on our side : the great debate at valladolid in 1550. Rediscovery of the ancient texts through arabs.
