University of Northern Colorado Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC
2020 Undergraduate Presentations Research Day 2020
4-2020
The Manifestation of Colonization Across Calendars in Periphery Countries
Elsa Yehdego
Follow this and additional works at: https://digscholarship.unco.edu/ug_pres_2020
THE ROLE OF COLONIZATION IN CALENDARS
Elsa Yehdego
Mentors: Dr. Talia Carroll and Dr. Ather Zia Department of Anthropology & International Affairs
Introduction Terms
This research analyzes and • Periphery: “It divides countries into a illustrates the ways in which three-level capitalist hierarchy: core, colonization has directly and periphery, and semi-periphery. Core indirectly influenced or continues to countries are dominant, capitalist influence the maintenance or countries that exploit peripheral change of culture, religion, countries for labor and raw materials”. economics, and language through Immanuel Wallerstein. adaptation of calendars.
Countries which have adopted the Gregorian calendar • Hegemony: “Hegemony, is sometimes Countries which use modified version of the Gregorian calendar Countries which use other calendars alongside the Gregorian calendar compared with domination, in which Research Question Countries which have not adopted the Gregorian calendar case the reference is to the process of gaining legitimate consent within the Preliminary Findings How has colonization historically functional universe of civil society, as influenced the maintenance or shift Every country in the world has been impacted by colonization whether directly opposed to simply holding it together in the use of calendars in the or indirectly. This historical analysis foreshadows that the countries in this study have been impacted. through a monopoly on the means of periphery countries such as Ethiopia, violence. Hegemony is compared with Egypt, Thailand, and Guatemala? economic-corporative”. Antonio Gramsci
Why is this research
important?
By understanding a calendar, one can understand culture, tradition, References language and history of a country. Calendars are intertwined with people; their individual and collective lives.