often becomes a way of legitimizing

This ambivalence in the perception of Amazigh/Berber culture – sometimes primitive, sometimes simply different – revealed a structuring tension in colonial anthropology. Westermarck was a scholar of his time, and as such, he reproduced certain Eurocentric categories in spite of himself. As Talal Asad (14) points out, “The colonial discourse works by representing the colonized as existing in a different temporal and cultural order, which often becomes a way of legitimizing domination.” Moreover, Westermarck did not give a direct voice to his informants. Moroccans appear in his writings as objects of analysis, not as subjects with a voice of their own. This silence reflected สล็อตเว็บตรง