Anthropology and Colonialism
Diane Lewis notes an estrangement between what two groups?
Anthropologists and non-white people that they have traditionally studied
The god of natural growth and human reproduction who returns to Hawaii annually with the rains of winter. The same god that Captain Cook was mistaken for
Who is Lono?
What country's colonial history does Obeyesekere present as analyses to argue against Cook's alleged peaceful nature as a colonizer?
What is Sri Lanka?
What is one disadvantage of studying a group which you belong to?
Do we accept your answer???
True or false: Your mom.
True... :/
True or false: Early Western anthropologists were focused on studying "primitive societies" as a means of understanding colonial effects on native cultures.
False: Lewis states "an immediate and practical purpose of anthropology was to fill in the gaps of Western man's knowledge about himself"(2019, 582)
True or False: By Sahlin's accounts, Cook was known to be relatively peaceful and avoidant of violence when interacting with native people.
True
Define one implication of "mythmaking" in western culture (obeyesekere, 10-11)
We have decide that you are either right or wrong
Obeyesekere defines this term as "a sacred story about gods and founding ancestors or stories about ancestral heroes"
What is a myth?
According to an English physician, Captain Cook displayed all of the symptoms of this ailment during his voyage to Hawaii
What is a parasitic infection of the intestine?
Head to head: Choose an opposing group. Both groups have 45 seconds to find one quote (1 sentence only) from the reading that sums up Lewis's articulation of "activist anthropologist"
the winner is...
According to Lt. King, the Hawaiians believed this would happen after killing Captain Cook
What is return the following year
In 1769, Captain Cook traveled to this country where his first contact with the Maori ended with several Maori dead
What is New Zealand?
Hawaiian words for "night" and "day"
Night = pō; Day = ao
What is the real original sin (think Jae)
Capitalism
The three ideological bases of colonial racism
1. the gulf between the colonialist and the colonized
2. the exploitation of these differences for the benefit of the colonialist
3. the use of these supposed differences as standards of absolute fact
The name of the Hawaiian New Year's ceremony
What is Makahiki?
What island did Cook nickname "Savage Island" (12-14)
The Polynesian Island of Niue
The (specific) reason for the lack of a colonial first hand account of Cook's death
What is Lt. Molesworth Phillips was knocked down and did not see the end itself?
The responses to "Anthropology and Colonialism", published at the end of the paper, were largely split between positive and negative reactions. Which country had the most academics who responded?
The USA (with seven responses)
"a process whereby the center of gravity for the acquisition of knowledge about the nation is location outside the nation itself"
what is scientific colonialism?
Sahlens proposes that this person murdered Captain Cook
Nuha (or Kanuha), the King's Defender
For 60 seconds, provide arguments for why (whether you believe it or not) Obeyesekere won the debate on Captain Cook's Death. Select a team leader to represent your group. You have 3 minutes to construct your argument from evidence in the readings. The opposing team (team with least amount of pts.) will have 60 seconds to argue for Sahlin's bases. Best argument wins the 500 pts.
And the winner is...
The guise that anthropologists have historically operated under as a means to socially distance oneself from the interests of the community being studied
Objective outsider
The University where Dr. Christopher Morris received his PhD
What is the University of Colorado at Boulder?