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A 7 page paper discussing how colonialism shapes anthropology and how it affects anthropological theory. The answer is likely that it does so to the same extent that it changes native society for and to the good pleasure of those creating the colony. This was the case in when the Dutch colonized South Africa, it was the case when the Europeans colonized the New World. It has been the case wherever one culture has fully dominated another. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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shape anthropology? The answer is likely that it does so to the same extent that it changes native society for and to the good pleasure of those creating the
colony. This was the case in when the Dutch colonized South Africa, it was the case when the Europeans colonized the New World. It has been the case
wherever one culture has fully dominated another. Colonialism and Anthropology Colonialism can be seen as having direct influence on the cultures it dominates.
One example is Australia, another is virtually all of Central and South America, as well as much of the Caribbean that was conquered by the Spanish. The British
has ruling power in India for a long while, but today little British influence can be seen there. Colonialism does affect anthropology, but it does not affect all dominated
societies to the same extent. Several African nations provide example. Sierra Leone struggled to emerge from both colonial rule and local colonial
sympathizers. In Rwanda, a centuries-old struggle was exacerbated by British colonialism, which also destroyed the delicate balance of power that contentious factors had built. Genocide in Rwanda
"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of the Hutus to
kill every Tutsi and Tutsi-sympathizing Hutu in existence. It was not always like this in Rwanda. For centuries, the Hutus and Tutsi
had coexisted in a kind of peace that each understood and that each was willing to accept. That all changed, however, when the Europeans "discovered" the great Rift Valley
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