Research On The Julian Haynes Steward And Coloniality Of New-evolution Theory

Julian Haynes Steward is one of the famous anthropologists of the United States’ new evolutionary school.He wrote many books in his life.He is not only an anthropologist but an outstanding teacher.His cultural ecology,multiliner evolution theory,and social-cultural integration hierarchy theory constituted the basic system of his new evolutionary thought.To a certain extent,this thought has made an important contribution to the academic development of anthropologists,but his theory of the new evolutionary ideology,due to the history,politics,and personal reasons at that time,the ideology theory had certain colonial properties in certain aspects.To a certain extent,it hurts the feelings of the Indians and damaged them.This paper adopts a method of discussion,layering and discussion,and carries out research and explanation on the coloniality of its new evolutionary theory.First of all,analyzes the life growth of Julian Haynes Steward in order to understand the person as a whole.then introduce the contents of the new evolutionary thought of Julian Haynes Steward.While analyzing and interpreting cultural ecology and multiline evolution theory respectively,it also analyzes the special identity status of Steward at that time,because his new evolutionary thought has colonialism and its identity.The location of him has a potential connection.in the end,it focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the colonial performance and characteristics of its new evolutionary theory.By analyzing and exploring the Steward and the colonization of his new evolutionary thought,the author finds that Steward has his own contributions and opinions in the field of anthropology.But his theory of new-evolution was on the historical stage at that time.It served as one of the tools of the United States government to colonize the Indians,and his new evolutionary ideas played an important role in the Utah case and the California case and its Paiute case.It provides a theoretical basis for the United States government to deprive the Indians of their qualifications of compensation,especially the theory of the level of social and cultural integration in the new evolution theory,which has deeply hurt the interests of the Indians,and has thus been put on the theory of colonization.By analyzing the colonization of Julian Haynes Steward and his new theory of evolution,we can not only understand his thoughts from many angles,but also see the living conditions of the Indians.At the same time,Let us think more about the distance between scholars and political participation.