Rowan Strong
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199218042
- eISBN:
- 9780191711527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199218042.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
A public theological discourse of how the English-British empire was to be understood was framed by the Anglican Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in its original missionary ...
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A public theological discourse of how the English-British empire was to be understood was framed by the Anglican Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in its original missionary engagement with the North American colonies in the 18th century. In its public sermons and missionary reports it constructed identities for the inhabitants of the empire, colonized and colonizers, and for the English themselves. It did so in partnership with the state, though this partnership was seen to be unsatisfactory in important dimensions.Less
A public theological discourse of how the English-British empire was to be understood was framed by the Anglican Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in its original missionary engagement with the North American colonies in the 18th century. In its public sermons and missionary reports it constructed identities for the inhabitants of the empire, colonized and colonizers, and for the English themselves. It did so in partnership with the state, though this partnership was seen to be unsatisfactory in important dimensions.
Veit Erlmann
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195123678
- eISBN:
- 9780199868797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195123678.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
At the end of the 19th century, the historical consciousness of people living in the metropolis and that of those at the colonial periphery were strangely intertwined. Although colonial discourse ...
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At the end of the 19th century, the historical consciousness of people living in the metropolis and that of those at the colonial periphery were strangely intertwined. Although colonial discourse represented the West as modern and the South African colonies as archaic and in need of modernization, the relationship between colonizers and colonized was only rarely a simple dialectic of domination and resistance. The experiences and narratives on either side of the divide frequently overlapped, drawing on and finding expression in ideologies of progress, Utopian dreams, and archaic images.Less
At the end of the 19th century, the historical consciousness of people living in the metropolis and that of those at the colonial periphery were strangely intertwined. Although colonial discourse represented the West as modern and the South African colonies as archaic and in need of modernization, the relationship between colonizers and colonized was only rarely a simple dialectic of domination and resistance. The experiences and narratives on either side of the divide frequently overlapped, drawing on and finding expression in ideologies of progress, Utopian dreams, and archaic images.
Daisy L. Machado
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195152234
- eISBN:
- 9780199834426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195152239.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Colonizers from the U.S. began to enter the Texas borderlands in the 1820s when Spain and then the newly formed Mexican republic gave land grants to men like Moses Austin and his son Stephen Austin, ...
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Colonizers from the U.S. began to enter the Texas borderlands in the 1820s when Spain and then the newly formed Mexican republic gave land grants to men like Moses Austin and his son Stephen Austin, who worked as an empresario. The arrival of these U.S. colonizers also meant the arrival of Protestantism since Austin's colony claimed members, lay and clergy, from various denominational groups. Despite efforts by the Mexican government to keep Roman Catholicism as the only legally recognized religion in the Texas borderlands, Protestant missionary work could not be stopped. However, it quickly became clear that the Protestant colonizers had no idea of what the Texas borderlands were about. The borderlands people, culture, language, and faith were seen as “other.” Devalued and ultimately excluded, the Texas borderlands people became foreigners in their own land.Less
Colonizers from the U.S. began to enter the Texas borderlands in the 1820s when Spain and then the newly formed Mexican republic gave land grants to men like Moses Austin and his son Stephen Austin, who worked as an empresario. The arrival of these U.S. colonizers also meant the arrival of Protestantism since Austin's colony claimed members, lay and clergy, from various denominational groups. Despite efforts by the Mexican government to keep Roman Catholicism as the only legally recognized religion in the Texas borderlands, Protestant missionary work could not be stopped. However, it quickly became clear that the Protestant colonizers had no idea of what the Texas borderlands were about. The borderlands people, culture, language, and faith were seen as “other.” Devalued and ultimately excluded, the Texas borderlands people became foreigners in their own land.
Jan Brokken
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461855
- eISBN:
- 9781626740914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461855.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter describes a concert attended by the author at which he hears the work of several local pianist/composers. It causes great surprise, this music seems to be a well kept secret – certainly ...
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This chapter describes a concert attended by the author at which he hears the work of several local pianist/composers. It causes great surprise, this music seems to be a well kept secret – certainly to the former colonizer, The Netherlands and it is a scandal that no more is known about it.Less
This chapter describes a concert attended by the author at which he hears the work of several local pianist/composers. It causes great surprise, this music seems to be a well kept secret – certainly to the former colonizer, The Netherlands and it is a scandal that no more is known about it.
Avner Ben-Amos
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203285
- eISBN:
- 9780191675836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203285.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Until around 1900, most of the military state funerals in France were given, accordingly, to republican high ranking army officers who had distinguished themselves in the 1870 war, some of whom ...
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Until around 1900, most of the military state funerals in France were given, accordingly, to republican high ranking army officers who had distinguished themselves in the 1870 war, some of whom served afterwards as governors of Paris. All of the funerals of the republican war heroes, with the exception of Denfert-Rochereau, were Catholic ceremonies, celebrated with full military pomp at the Invalides, culminating there in the church of Saint-Louis. The republican speakers in these ceremonies tended to concentrate on the patriotism and the military exploits of the dead heroes, and to mention their republicanism only in passing, thus giving the ceremony a national character. This chapter looks at the state funerals of French soldiers and colonizers, including revolutionary heroes such as Marceau, Lazare Carnot, La Tour d'Auvergne, Jean Baudin, and Rouget de Lisle, and colonizers like Admiral Courbet, Paul Bert, and Marshal Lyautey. It discusses the question of war commemoration after the 1870 war. The dual transfer of the remains of Léon Gambetta and of an Unknown Soldier to the Panthéon is also considered.Less
Until around 1900, most of the military state funerals in France were given, accordingly, to republican high ranking army officers who had distinguished themselves in the 1870 war, some of whom served afterwards as governors of Paris. All of the funerals of the republican war heroes, with the exception of Denfert-Rochereau, were Catholic ceremonies, celebrated with full military pomp at the Invalides, culminating there in the church of Saint-Louis. The republican speakers in these ceremonies tended to concentrate on the patriotism and the military exploits of the dead heroes, and to mention their republicanism only in passing, thus giving the ceremony a national character. This chapter looks at the state funerals of French soldiers and colonizers, including revolutionary heroes such as Marceau, Lazare Carnot, La Tour d'Auvergne, Jean Baudin, and Rouget de Lisle, and colonizers like Admiral Courbet, Paul Bert, and Marshal Lyautey. It discusses the question of war commemoration after the 1870 war. The dual transfer of the remains of Léon Gambetta and of an Unknown Soldier to the Panthéon is also considered.
Heather Bell
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207498
- eISBN:
- 9780191677694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207498.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book is about colonial medicine and its emphasis on colony. Colonial medicine suggests that we should understand overseas medical practice during the age of imperialism in the context of the ...
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This book is about colonial medicine and its emphasis on colony. Colonial medicine suggests that we should understand overseas medical practice during the age of imperialism in the context of the interwoven political, economic, and social institutions and interests that constituted each different colonial regime. Such an emphasis is particularly important because colonialism, even within the British empire, took on a wide range of forms. Certainties about the binary division between colonizer and colonized are being challenged as we come to appreciate the roles played by members of the ‘colonized’ population in colonial administrations. This book seeks to describe and define the ‘colonial’ and the ‘medical’ in Sudan between 1899 and 1940. Colonial officials, including doctors, worked at physical frontiers, between provinces, nations, peoples, and zones of infection and non-infection. Colonial medicine in Sudan involved employing non-European doctors and training African medical personnel. Colonial doctors recognized that one of the main ways in which colonial rule changed epidemiology was by influencing patterns of population movement.Less
This book is about colonial medicine and its emphasis on colony. Colonial medicine suggests that we should understand overseas medical practice during the age of imperialism in the context of the interwoven political, economic, and social institutions and interests that constituted each different colonial regime. Such an emphasis is particularly important because colonialism, even within the British empire, took on a wide range of forms. Certainties about the binary division between colonizer and colonized are being challenged as we come to appreciate the roles played by members of the ‘colonized’ population in colonial administrations. This book seeks to describe and define the ‘colonial’ and the ‘medical’ in Sudan between 1899 and 1940. Colonial officials, including doctors, worked at physical frontiers, between provinces, nations, peoples, and zones of infection and non-infection. Colonial medicine in Sudan involved employing non-European doctors and training African medical personnel. Colonial doctors recognized that one of the main ways in which colonial rule changed epidemiology was by influencing patterns of population movement.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778138
- eISBN:
- 9780804781053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778138.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book explores tropical medicine as an inter-European international science and assesses the application of some of its leading scientists' ideas about how to address two major colonial health ...
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This book explores tropical medicine as an inter-European international science and assesses the application of some of its leading scientists' ideas about how to address two major colonial health problems in Africa: public health in urban colonial centers and the sleeping sickness epidemic. It focuses on a group of colonizers: what motivated them, what brought them together as a transnational community, how the colonies benefited their profession, and how their collective ideas were put into practice in specific locations.Less
This book explores tropical medicine as an inter-European international science and assesses the application of some of its leading scientists' ideas about how to address two major colonial health problems in Africa: public health in urban colonial centers and the sleeping sickness epidemic. It focuses on a group of colonizers: what motivated them, what brought them together as a transnational community, how the colonies benefited their profession, and how their collective ideas were put into practice in specific locations.
Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler (eds)
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520205406
- eISBN:
- 9780520918085
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520205406.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this book investigates metropolitan–colonial ...
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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this book investigates metropolitan–colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen chapters demonstrate various ways in which “civilizing missions” in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed, and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The chapters argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of “the colonized,” it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.Less
Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this book investigates metropolitan–colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen chapters demonstrate various ways in which “civilizing missions” in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed, and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The chapters argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of “the colonized,” it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.
Simon Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036021
- eISBN:
- 9780813038636
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036021.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
African identities have been written and rewritten about in both British and African literature for decades. These revisions have opened up new formulations of what it really means to be British or ...
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African identities have been written and rewritten about in both British and African literature for decades. These revisions have opened up new formulations of what it really means to be British or African. By comparing texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations, the book analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized. It brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late eighteenth century through the decades following World War II. In these comparisons, the book focuses on commonalities rather than differences. By examining the work of writers including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, T. S. Eliot, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zoe Wicomb, Yvette Christianse, and Chris van Wyk, the book demonstrates how Britain's former African colonies influence British culture just as much as African culture was influenced by British colonization. The book brings a uniquely informed perspective to the topic, having lived in South Africa, Tanzania, and Great Britain, and having taught African literature for over a decade. The book demonstrates expert knowledge of local cultural history from 1945 to the present, in both Africa and Britain.Less
African identities have been written and rewritten about in both British and African literature for decades. These revisions have opened up new formulations of what it really means to be British or African. By comparing texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations, the book analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized. It brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late eighteenth century through the decades following World War II. In these comparisons, the book focuses on commonalities rather than differences. By examining the work of writers including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, T. S. Eliot, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zoe Wicomb, Yvette Christianse, and Chris van Wyk, the book demonstrates how Britain's former African colonies influence British culture just as much as African culture was influenced by British colonization. The book brings a uniquely informed perspective to the topic, having lived in South Africa, Tanzania, and Great Britain, and having taught African literature for over a decade. The book demonstrates expert knowledge of local cultural history from 1945 to the present, in both Africa and Britain.
Simon Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036021
- eISBN:
- 9780813038636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036021.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter explores Abdulrazak Gurnah's works. The European colonizer/African colonized discourse is explicitly complicated in Zanzibar, the birth place of Gurnah, by a set of circumstances which ...
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This chapter explores Abdulrazak Gurnah's works. The European colonizer/African colonized discourse is explicitly complicated in Zanzibar, the birth place of Gurnah, by a set of circumstances which do not fit the Black Atlantic model. Two additional discourses in particular need to be factored into the discussion here: the history of the Cold War and how it played out in Africa between World War II and the collapse of communism in 1990, and the history of the Indian Ocean world and the various and complex circulations of people, things, and ideas within it—notably Islam. Furthermore, a reading of Gurnah's works supports the critique of mainstream Western discourse for writing and reading about Africa.Less
This chapter explores Abdulrazak Gurnah's works. The European colonizer/African colonized discourse is explicitly complicated in Zanzibar, the birth place of Gurnah, by a set of circumstances which do not fit the Black Atlantic model. Two additional discourses in particular need to be factored into the discussion here: the history of the Cold War and how it played out in Africa between World War II and the collapse of communism in 1990, and the history of the Indian Ocean world and the various and complex circulations of people, things, and ideas within it—notably Islam. Furthermore, a reading of Gurnah's works supports the critique of mainstream Western discourse for writing and reading about Africa.
Simon Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036021
- eISBN:
- 9780813038636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036021.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized on the basis of the texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations. ...
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This book analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized on the basis of the texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations. It brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late eighteenth century through the decades following World War II. In these comparisons, the text focuses on commonalities rather than differences. This book looks at the impact of British African colonies over the British culture and vice versa.Less
This book analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized on the basis of the texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations. It brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late eighteenth century through the decades following World War II. In these comparisons, the text focuses on commonalities rather than differences. This book looks at the impact of British African colonies over the British culture and vice versa.
Christi A. Merrill
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229550
- eISBN:
- 9780823241064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823229550.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
It is perhaps easy to imagine why this exchange has been repeated so often in the intervening years, and with such glee: here, contained in a clever, sassy quip, is a most damning critique of the ...
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It is perhaps easy to imagine why this exchange has been repeated so often in the intervening years, and with such glee: here, contained in a clever, sassy quip, is a most damning critique of the uneven political and economic relationship between colonizer and colonized. Rather than assuming “civilization” to be a static, fixed entity that the British have possessed as a matter of course since time immemorial (or at least since the waning of the Roman empire) and rather than assuming that the British are necessarily in the superior position to help people in India (re)acquaint themselves — somewhat derivatively — with their own version of “civilization”, Gandhi's response points playfully to an imaginary future — mischievously conditional — with no such fixed logic of relation.Less
It is perhaps easy to imagine why this exchange has been repeated so often in the intervening years, and with such glee: here, contained in a clever, sassy quip, is a most damning critique of the uneven political and economic relationship between colonizer and colonized. Rather than assuming “civilization” to be a static, fixed entity that the British have possessed as a matter of course since time immemorial (or at least since the waning of the Roman empire) and rather than assuming that the British are necessarily in the superior position to help people in India (re)acquaint themselves — somewhat derivatively — with their own version of “civilization”, Gandhi's response points playfully to an imaginary future — mischievously conditional — with no such fixed logic of relation.
Sahar Amer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469617756
- eISBN:
- 9781469619804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469617756.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter looks at veiling during the nineteenth century, a period that saw European imperial powers make incursions into and take control over much of the Middle East. It examines how European ...
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This chapter looks at veiling during the nineteenth century, a period that saw European imperial powers make incursions into and take control over much of the Middle East. It examines how European views of Muslim-majority societies and of veiled Muslim women of this time have shaped the way Muslim women, especially veiled ones, are perceived in Euro-American societies today. It begins by discussing the portrayal of Middle Eastern women with veils and the imagined interiors of harems in European and American paintings throughout the nineteenth century, in photographs and postcards in the early twentieth century, and in early Hollywood films. It then explores how European colonisers used Muslim women's veiling and the perceived evils of Islam to justify their civilizing missions.Less
This chapter looks at veiling during the nineteenth century, a period that saw European imperial powers make incursions into and take control over much of the Middle East. It examines how European views of Muslim-majority societies and of veiled Muslim women of this time have shaped the way Muslim women, especially veiled ones, are perceived in Euro-American societies today. It begins by discussing the portrayal of Middle Eastern women with veils and the imagined interiors of harems in European and American paintings throughout the nineteenth century, in photographs and postcards in the early twentieth century, and in early Hollywood films. It then explores how European colonisers used Muslim women's veiling and the perceived evils of Islam to justify their civilizing missions.
Alastair Couper
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832391
- eISBN:
- 9780824869946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832391.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines the period of the first arrival of the European colonizers in the Pacific Islands and their impact on maritime trade. Drawing on the journals of Captain James Cook and others ...
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This chapter examines the period of the first arrival of the European colonizers in the Pacific Islands and their impact on maritime trade. Drawing on the journals of Captain James Cook and others from 1768, the chapter considers how population growth and environmental stresses drove chiefs to extend their territories beyond their own villages and islands. It then discusses inter-island trade in the Pacific and cites examples of island maritime trading networks based on evidence from the earliest settlements. More specifically, it explores trade in essential implements; reciprocal trade between high and low islands; the role of kinship in trading voyages; exchanges of religious and ceremonial articles; the use of barter and various forms of currency as a means of exchange; and the participation of women in sea trade. The chapter concludes by turning to a number of small islands with traces of earlier occupation that experienced isolation and loss of sea transport.Less
This chapter examines the period of the first arrival of the European colonizers in the Pacific Islands and their impact on maritime trade. Drawing on the journals of Captain James Cook and others from 1768, the chapter considers how population growth and environmental stresses drove chiefs to extend their territories beyond their own villages and islands. It then discusses inter-island trade in the Pacific and cites examples of island maritime trading networks based on evidence from the earliest settlements. More specifically, it explores trade in essential implements; reciprocal trade between high and low islands; the role of kinship in trading voyages; exchanges of religious and ceremonial articles; the use of barter and various forms of currency as a means of exchange; and the participation of women in sea trade. The chapter concludes by turning to a number of small islands with traces of earlier occupation that experienced isolation and loss of sea transport.
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027243
- eISBN:
- 9780262326155
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027243.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This book views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop ...
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This book views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. The book shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, it explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, the book considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. It describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, the book states, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. It argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them.Less
This book views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. The book shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, it explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, the book considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. It describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, the book states, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. It argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them.
Kenneth M. Bilby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032788
- eISBN:
- 9780813039138
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032788.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the notion that the Jamaican Maroons are special people. It suggests that for generations no other Jamaicans shared the glorious history of the Maroons in standing alone to ...
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This chapter examines the notion that the Jamaican Maroons are special people. It suggests that for generations no other Jamaicans shared the glorious history of the Maroons in standing alone to seize their freedom from the British colonizers nearly a century before slavery was abolished in Jamaica. According to the Maroons today, the special knowledge, skills, and spiritual powers that brought the early fighters victory were bequeathed only to their descendants, and remain their exclusive property. This chapter looks at excerpts from Maroon oral history narratives and sacred songs related to their fight for freedom against the British.Less
This chapter examines the notion that the Jamaican Maroons are special people. It suggests that for generations no other Jamaicans shared the glorious history of the Maroons in standing alone to seize their freedom from the British colonizers nearly a century before slavery was abolished in Jamaica. According to the Maroons today, the special knowledge, skills, and spiritual powers that brought the early fighters victory were bequeathed only to their descendants, and remain their exclusive property. This chapter looks at excerpts from Maroon oral history narratives and sacred songs related to their fight for freedom against the British.
Kenneth M. Bilby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032788
- eISBN:
- 9780813039138
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032788.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the treaty between the Jamaican Maroons and the British colonizers. It discusses the difficulty for the colonial government to enter into diplomatic relations and negotiating a ...
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This chapter examines the treaty between the Jamaican Maroons and the British colonizers. It discusses the difficulty for the colonial government to enter into diplomatic relations and negotiating a peace settlement with their former slaves for the cessation of hostilities. It suggests that the idea of making peace with those who had caused them tremendous suffering was equally distasteful for the Maroons.Less
This chapter examines the treaty between the Jamaican Maroons and the British colonizers. It discusses the difficulty for the colonial government to enter into diplomatic relations and negotiating a peace settlement with their former slaves for the cessation of hostilities. It suggests that the idea of making peace with those who had caused them tremendous suffering was equally distasteful for the Maroons.
Ken Hiltner
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449406
- eISBN:
- 9780801460760
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449406.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter focuses on the emergence of georgic approaches, ethics, and discourse. It argues that the pastoral mode was not generally all that useful a tool for the colonial project. After all, ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of georgic approaches, ethics, and discourse. It argues that the pastoral mode was not generally all that useful a tool for the colonial project. After all, literature that emphasized otium as an ideal would be of little help in generating interest in the hard work that colonization required. Although conceiving of a prospective colony as a locus amoenus might capture the imagination of a potential colonizer, once the colonial project was underway, a new ethic was needed to exploit the colonized place. Enter the georgic. In his Georgics, Virgil boldly and famously declared that agricultural “Labor omnia vicit” (“Labor conquers all”). In the sixteenth century, writers such as Julius Caesar Scaliger began to praise georgic labor while condemning pastoral otium. What we can call the “georgic ethic” also played a major role both in motivating the enormous fenland reclamation projects of the seventeenth century, as well as the even more massive efforts to colonize new lands.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of georgic approaches, ethics, and discourse. It argues that the pastoral mode was not generally all that useful a tool for the colonial project. After all, literature that emphasized otium as an ideal would be of little help in generating interest in the hard work that colonization required. Although conceiving of a prospective colony as a locus amoenus might capture the imagination of a potential colonizer, once the colonial project was underway, a new ethic was needed to exploit the colonized place. Enter the georgic. In his Georgics, Virgil boldly and famously declared that agricultural “Labor omnia vicit” (“Labor conquers all”). In the sixteenth century, writers such as Julius Caesar Scaliger began to praise georgic labor while condemning pastoral otium. What we can call the “georgic ethic” also played a major role both in motivating the enormous fenland reclamation projects of the seventeenth century, as well as the even more massive efforts to colonize new lands.
Patrick Brantlinger
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450198
- eISBN:
- 9780801462634
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450198.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter surveys some of the many forms of “going native”—when supposedly civilized white people mimic “the natives.” The standard image of “the imperial race,” evident in countless texts in many ...
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This chapter surveys some of the many forms of “going native”—when supposedly civilized white people mimic “the natives.” The standard image of “the imperial race,” evident in countless texts in many genres, is of the unflinching British hero, braving the attacks and temptations of savages and barbarians. The “natives” are supposed to mimic their betters, not the other way around. But whatever views of other races and cultures the colonizers harbored, they often blurred or transgressed the boundaries of their own culture by imitating and even joining the natives. This was just as true of the British in the 1800s as it was of all the other European conquerors and colonizers.Less
This chapter surveys some of the many forms of “going native”—when supposedly civilized white people mimic “the natives.” The standard image of “the imperial race,” evident in countless texts in many genres, is of the unflinching British hero, braving the attacks and temptations of savages and barbarians. The “natives” are supposed to mimic their betters, not the other way around. But whatever views of other races and cultures the colonizers harbored, they often blurred or transgressed the boundaries of their own culture by imitating and even joining the natives. This was just as true of the British in the 1800s as it was of all the other European conquerors and colonizers.
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027243
- eISBN:
- 9780262326155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027243.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter examines how European colonizers under siege from the deadly tsetse fly deferred to African hunters in the absence of any remedies of their own. It considers the disruptive role of ...
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This chapter examines how European colonizers under siege from the deadly tsetse fly deferred to African hunters in the absence of any remedies of their own. It considers the disruptive role of European colonial partition, mobilities, and settlements; in particular, it shows how this “ecological imperialism” led to the displacement of Africans from lands they had tamed, with the Europeans settling in areas where Africans had sequestered pestilent insects like tsetse fly. When the pests struck back and there was no ready biomedical or chemical solutions, the colonial state turned to the African hunter to help slaughter forest animals, starve the tsetse fly of its food source (blood), and kill the deadly trypanosome protozoan the insect transmitted from forest animal reservoirs to livestock. The outbreak of trypanosomiasis becomes coproduced “through a conjunction of bodies, technologies, and cultural practices,” demonstrating how an insect subverted and indeed mediated the much-vaunted powers of imperialism and colonialism and held hostage those who are supposed to be the lord of the African.Less
This chapter examines how European colonizers under siege from the deadly tsetse fly deferred to African hunters in the absence of any remedies of their own. It considers the disruptive role of European colonial partition, mobilities, and settlements; in particular, it shows how this “ecological imperialism” led to the displacement of Africans from lands they had tamed, with the Europeans settling in areas where Africans had sequestered pestilent insects like tsetse fly. When the pests struck back and there was no ready biomedical or chemical solutions, the colonial state turned to the African hunter to help slaughter forest animals, starve the tsetse fly of its food source (blood), and kill the deadly trypanosome protozoan the insect transmitted from forest animal reservoirs to livestock. The outbreak of trypanosomiasis becomes coproduced “through a conjunction of bodies, technologies, and cultural practices,” demonstrating how an insect subverted and indeed mediated the much-vaunted powers of imperialism and colonialism and held hostage those who are supposed to be the lord of the African.
