ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: East Los Angeles College, European Colonialism, Neocolonialism
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Global challenges and the role of applied anthropology. Colonialism: the political, economic, and sociocultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign nation. Exercised total, or near total, control over the political commercial, and social systems of the colonial territories. Acquisitions of wealth and influence during the 19th century created the world economic order of the 20th century. And most of these former european colonial powers even though they granted independence to most of their colonies decades ago have retained their economic and political influence into the 21st century (pg. Neo-colonialism: the process of developed nations continuing to exert economic, political and military influence over less-developed countries, even though the official period of colonization ended in the 1960s. Power that organizes and orchestrates the systematic interaction within and among societies, directing economic and political forces on the one hand and ideological forces that shape public ideas, values and beliefs on the other.
