ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thomas Mcilwraith, Eric Wolf, 1918 Flu Pandemic

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Hugode Burgo

Document Summary

Sir daniel wilson: studied native people in canada. Thomas mcilwraith: founded the first canadian department on an. Capitalism: an economic system dominated by a supply and demand market designed to create capital profit. Colonialism: the cultural domination of a people by larger, wealthier powers. Imperialism: a system in which one country controls other, less powerful territories through colonization, often augmentation by military force. Eric wolf finds the seeds of imperialist europeans- when they reach out to seize the resources and populations of other continents. Terra regis: the belief that all newly discovered territories were the king"s land by divine right. Hudson bay company- to exploit resources and explore passages: hbc was all about commerce. Solely interested in trade: manipulated indigenous people. Anything that exists is given a name tag- land, ideas, even people - rules all workers. To function within the capitalist world order, colonized peoples had to begin seeing the world as a storehouse of potential commodities.