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I think it was far from inevitable
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Islam in W. Africa was simply a consequence of trade, unlike Christianity in China. The comparison, I believe lies in the relative spiritual needs of the elites in both places. Chinese elites had rejected Buddhism for the most part, and Confucianism alone leaves much to be desired with regard to spiritualism. Chinese lower classes benefited from a blend of Buddhism/Confucianism.
In W. Africa, it was the elites more than the lower classes exposed to Islam because trade was the social engine, and well regarded, and elites participated. The lower classes on the other hand had less exposure and were content with the ancient animist traditions extant in W. Africa.
We can see a similar trend in the recent history of the West. Upper-class, more educated, people are increasingly secular, while religion tends to remain the enclave of the lower and working classes.
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Early Trade <span>The first Europeans to purchase furs from </span>Indians<span> were </span>French<span> and English fishermen who during the 1500S fished off the coast of northeastern Canada and occasionally traded with the </span>Indians <span>In exchange the </span>Indians<span> received European-manufactured goods such as guns metal cooking utensils and cloth</span>
One of the first and most prominent anthropologists to focus on the impact of European expansionism on indigenous cultures worldwide was <u>Eric Wolf.</u>
Eric Wolf was an anthropologist who was concerned with the impact of European imperialism on indigenous cultures, on whom he called ‘people without history’.
Wolf developed a theory comparable to world-systems theory. He argued that Europe grew till the late 18th century maintaining tributary relations with its colonies. Colonial state structures were arranged in a way to protect and promote the economic interest of Europe.
In this process, new ‘tribes’ were created who became collaborators and were incorporated into the mercantile system. He analyzed how capitalist, tributary, and kinship mode of production integrated and transformed society and cultures in the colonies.
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