ANTH 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Walter Mignolo, European Colonialism, Cultural Anthropology
11 Apr 2018
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10-12 office hours 1033 pine av west room 136. Textbook needed - available at paragraphe need it for november. Capital cities, major cities, where they are on the map, pre-colombian ethnolinguistic maps. How they all have to do with ontology. Colonialty is part of modernity and the two are encompassed by ontology. How this has to do with entry of america into european consciousness. How this has a lot to do with construction of modern world order. Coloniality of power decolonial paradigms of knowledge. Coloniality of power an expression coined by peruvian sociologist anibal quijano. Names the structures of power, control (hegemony, domination) and knowledge (cultural oppression, epistemic something) that have emerged during the era of colonialism which stretches from the conquest of the americas to the present. Owes a lot fo arturo escobar wrote encountering development which equates dvlpt projects with the latess ways of european colonialism. Called for anthropology of modernity voices and perspectives that exist in modernity.
