Martin Bernal
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199595006
- eISBN:
- 9780191731464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199595006.003.0024
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, African History: BCE to 500CE
This afterword is an autobiographical survey or analysis of the background to the three volume series Black Athena. It treats the author's earlier concerns with cultural contacts between Europe and ...
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This afterword is an autobiographical survey or analysis of the background to the three volume series Black Athena. It treats the author's earlier concerns with cultural contacts between Europe and China and colonialism in Central Africa. It also considers the extent to which these interests prefigured the Black Athena project. There is a short description of his work linking the disappearance of Phoenicians to the appearance of Jews, in which the argument is made that the genetic component of the Jewish community has been exaggerated and the importance of conversion underplayed. The piece concludes with an investigation of the precipitation or provocation of the project by the author's close associations with student and faculty followers of the conservative philosopher Leo Strauss.Less
This afterword is an autobiographical survey or analysis of the background to the three volume series Black Athena. It treats the author's earlier concerns with cultural contacts between Europe and China and colonialism in Central Africa. It also considers the extent to which these interests prefigured the Black Athena project. There is a short description of his work linking the disappearance of Phoenicians to the appearance of Jews, in which the argument is made that the genetic component of the Jewish community has been exaggerated and the importance of conversion underplayed. The piece concludes with an investigation of the precipitation or provocation of the project by the author's close associations with student and faculty followers of the conservative philosopher Leo Strauss.
Roberto Valcárcel Rojas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061566
- eISBN:
- 9780813051499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061566.003.0002
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Cultural contact is discussed as a perspective that can hide the colonial essence inherent in the processes of interaction between indigenous societies of the American continent and Europeans. The ...
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Cultural contact is discussed as a perspective that can hide the colonial essence inherent in the processes of interaction between indigenous societies of the American continent and Europeans. The history of investigation of the so-called contact period in the Greater Antilles are presented, and the need to implement a focus that permits understanding of its multiple facets and moments of interaction between the indigenous and the Europeans. The act of domination marks this process, as well as the difference between the contact situation and the colonial situation. The establishment of the encomienda as a system of domination and organization, and the exploitation of the indigenous societies and resources of the New World, represents the consolidation of a colonial situation. This domination reaches all aspects of life, from quotidian domestic activities and economy to the spiritual world and is managed and faced in diverse ways by the indigenous and other dominated groups.Less
Cultural contact is discussed as a perspective that can hide the colonial essence inherent in the processes of interaction between indigenous societies of the American continent and Europeans. The history of investigation of the so-called contact period in the Greater Antilles are presented, and the need to implement a focus that permits understanding of its multiple facets and moments of interaction between the indigenous and the Europeans. The act of domination marks this process, as well as the difference between the contact situation and the colonial situation. The establishment of the encomienda as a system of domination and organization, and the exploitation of the indigenous societies and resources of the New World, represents the consolidation of a colonial situation. This domination reaches all aspects of life, from quotidian domestic activities and economy to the spiritual world and is managed and faced in diverse ways by the indigenous and other dominated groups.
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469636405
- eISBN:
- 9781469636429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636405.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter explores US debates over immigration and race that took shape within new academic disciplines and new institutions, including the National Research Council and the Social Science ...
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This chapter explores US debates over immigration and race that took shape within new academic disciplines and new institutions, including the National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council. U.S. studies of Mexico and Latin America emerged as part of US domestic debates regarding Americanization and immigrant assimilation. These studies of Latin America were part of a comparative project aimed at understanding the ostensibly backward peoples within the United States and the biological and cultural processes of contact and mixing through which they might be assimilated into prevailing Euro-U.S. lifeways. As Mendelianism spread, race came to be defined as biological and inherited. Cultural anthropologists in turn drew on the work of Franz Boas to deny the importance of biological difference. These cultural anthropologist circumvented hierarchical evolutionary views through paradigms of cultural relativism and historical diffusion. They supported more pluralist policies.Less
This chapter explores US debates over immigration and race that took shape within new academic disciplines and new institutions, including the National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council. U.S. studies of Mexico and Latin America emerged as part of US domestic debates regarding Americanization and immigrant assimilation. These studies of Latin America were part of a comparative project aimed at understanding the ostensibly backward peoples within the United States and the biological and cultural processes of contact and mixing through which they might be assimilated into prevailing Euro-U.S. lifeways. As Mendelianism spread, race came to be defined as biological and inherited. Cultural anthropologists in turn drew on the work of Franz Boas to deny the importance of biological difference. These cultural anthropologist circumvented hierarchical evolutionary views through paradigms of cultural relativism and historical diffusion. They supported more pluralist policies.
Raylene Ramsay
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781781380376
- eISBN:
- 9781781387221
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380376.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Hybridity theory (the creative dissemi-nation, or restless to-and-fro of Bhabha's Third Space, or of Hall's politics of difference, for example) provides a number of notions that open up our ...
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Hybridity theory (the creative dissemi-nation, or restless to-and-fro of Bhabha's Third Space, or of Hall's politics of difference, for example) provides a number of notions that open up our understanding of what may have taken place (or what might yet be produced) in the spaces of cultural contact between France and the Pacific in the French territory of Kanaky-New Caledonia. However, the attempt to circumscribe the particularity of the forms of cultural mixing reflected in both indigenous and settler texts ultimately contests and supplements the notion of hybridity itself. New Caledonian literatures produce their own Pacific and Oceanian differences particular to their changing historical contexts and present strategic positioning but cultural transformation is not unbounded. The local cannot escape the global, yet these literatures maintain, if not an irreducible identity, then at the least a sense of engendering or ancestral origins that continue to distinctively reconfigure the hybridities these relatively unstudied and excitingly different texts create. The marks on the landscapes inscribed in the old Kanak stories are still largely present. The spiral going forward continually remembers and cycles back to an enduring core, in at least a partial return to cultural roots, to a pre-colonial or pre-deportation scene, however compromised by exile and loss, by means of a recovery of foundational myths and legends or the restoration of pride in the creation of a new ‘home’.Less
Hybridity theory (the creative dissemi-nation, or restless to-and-fro of Bhabha's Third Space, or of Hall's politics of difference, for example) provides a number of notions that open up our understanding of what may have taken place (or what might yet be produced) in the spaces of cultural contact between France and the Pacific in the French territory of Kanaky-New Caledonia. However, the attempt to circumscribe the particularity of the forms of cultural mixing reflected in both indigenous and settler texts ultimately contests and supplements the notion of hybridity itself. New Caledonian literatures produce their own Pacific and Oceanian differences particular to their changing historical contexts and present strategic positioning but cultural transformation is not unbounded. The local cannot escape the global, yet these literatures maintain, if not an irreducible identity, then at the least a sense of engendering or ancestral origins that continue to distinctively reconfigure the hybridities these relatively unstudied and excitingly different texts create. The marks on the landscapes inscribed in the old Kanak stories are still largely present. The spiral going forward continually remembers and cycles back to an enduring core, in at least a partial return to cultural roots, to a pre-colonial or pre-deportation scene, however compromised by exile and loss, by means of a recovery of foundational myths and legends or the restoration of pride in the creation of a new ‘home’.
