Tag: anthropology
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The stranger king
What Hernán Cortés did, you see, was more than just landfall on some foreign coast—it was a whole operation. Stranger King theory, they call it now. Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist, mapped it out: the colonial playbook, rubber-stamped, refined, perfected, executed to the letter. It starts with smoke and mirrors, offering peace to warring tribes while the…