Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Colonialism is significant for anthropology in three senses: (1) anthropology’s alleged collaboration with colonial government and broader complicity in the culture of imperialism has been extensively debated; (2) colonial processes have had farreaching and diverse ramifications for social and cultural phenomena studied by anthropologists; and (3) colonialism and colonial culture have emerged as objects of anthropological analysis in themselves.
The order of these points relates roughly to the chronology of debate and analysis around the topic within the discipline and beyond.
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