"We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the
ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual
inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie. But anthropology is
also rooted in an unequal power encounter between the West and the
Third World, which goes back to the emergence of bourgeois Europe,
an encounter in which colonialism is merely one historical moment.
It is this encounter that gives the West access to cultural and
historical information about the societies it has progressively
dominated, and thus not only generates a certain kind of universal
understanding, but also reenforces the inequalities in capacity
between the European and the non-European worlds (and derivatively,
between the Europeanized elites and the 'tradtional' masses in the
Third World) . . ." - from the Introduction
The papers in this book analyze and document ways in which
anthropological thinking and practice have been affected by British
colonialism. They approach this topic from different points of view
and at different levels. Each stands as an original contribution to
an argument which is only just beginning.
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