ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Yellow Fever, Krishna, Saint-Domingue
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Oct 30 white darkness and the living dead anthro 100 5838 words. Indeed the very concept of africa" implies a uniformity to the world"s second largest continent that geography and ethnography denies. The idea of the dark continent, a notion that persists to this day, appears absurd to anyone who has walked in the searing sands of the sahara, or rested beneath the bright light of a serengeti sun. European colonization of africa came very late, with the arbitrary boundaries that remain a curse to this day not being laid down until the. Then in short order came two world wars, the depression, and decolonization in 1960 when the europeans just bolted, shutting off the lights as they went. When the belgium abandoned the congo in 1960 they left behind but two university graduates. War, and a spate of proxy wars by client states of either the soviet or.
