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Re: Colonialism as the big bang
Matthew S. Tomaso (tomaso@UTXVMS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU)
Tue, 7 Feb 1995 22:41:03 -0600
At 05:20 PM 2/7/95, Matthew Ervin wrote:
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>I agree completely. The Assumptions you mention sound more like those of
>Sociologists than those we would associate with Anthropology.
>What happened to cultural relativity? The emic perspective? Objectivity?
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>me
well, you've witnessed the death of the emic perspective right here on this
list, recently. Cultural relativity apparently died with Boas. And haven't
you heard, we're all sociaologists now!
No, but seriously, I think these are important issues that have to do with
how we conceive of ourselves and others. I am all for decolonizing myself
and my project if it's at all possible, but I would appreciate a perspective
that does not reject the possibility of making sense out of the past. I
don't understand why Europeans feel that they must make themselves out to be
the first, the most intense and the only true colonizers.
Matt
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