“Our White Fathers:” Patriarchy and Shifting Gender Roles in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1961
“Our White Fathers:” Patriarchy and Shifting Gender Roles in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1961 The twentieth-century immigration of European colonizers to Nigeria required the maintenance of a … Continue reading
Response — Roy Scranton, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene”
Anthropologists and sociologists, historians and philosophers; scholars of all schools and colors have tracked the progress of Human Civilization since its very genesis. From the first use of fire to … Continue reading
Film Analysis — The Gods Must Be Crazy
At first glance, “The Gods Must Be Crazy” is an innocent comedy, full of guiltless slapstick and overtly-prolonged gags. Billed as “an epic comedy of absurd proportions,” it has become … Continue reading
John Naisbitt– “Technology as Currency,” High Tech, High Touch
In “Technology is the Currency of our Lives,” found in High Tech, High Touch, published in 1999, the author John Naisbitt discusses a familiar topic, but it in an interesting … Continue reading
Critical Analysis– Lelia Green’s “What Fuels Technology Change?”
Asking whether technology is a neutral agent in societal change naturally presupposes that technology is in itself the agent of that change. Further, asking whether it is technological or social … Continue reading
Critical Analysis– The Jesuit Relations
The Jesuit Relations, collected and edited by Allan Greer, is an anthology of Jesuit missionary reports written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These reports accompanied the encroachment of New … Continue reading
Critical Analysis– Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall’s sweeping and authoritative work, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest seeks to debunk five centuries of historiographical half-truths. Quoting Armesto, he begins his work by undermining the certainty … Continue reading
