ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Invented Tradition, Colonisation Of Africa, Main Source
31 Aug 2020
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Lord bryce said that the colonial experience fostered personality developing itself under simple yet severe conditions, fitted to bring out the real force of a man . Alongside this process of affirming and making gentility there ran another a redefinition of occupations, so that it became gentlemanly to be a store-keeper or a prospector. The labor forces of the early colonial economies depended entirely on african produced food. The main source of british immigrants with capital after the war was that has been called the. Radical kenyan journalist: j. k robertson: critical of kenyan whites, believed them to obstruct productive industy. Strength of european invented traditions produce soldiers and administrators and settlers dedicated to the feudal patriarchal ethic rather than the capitalist transformative one. Invented traditions was a way of running an immensely complex industrial society, a way of managing and accommodating change. They were seen as agencies of modernization.
