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2 unusual facts about Nicholas Thomas


Internal colonialism

According to Nicholas Thomas, who draws on the work of Michel Foucault, modernity can be understood as a colonialist project, wherein “societies internal to Western nations, and those they possessed, administered and reformed elsewhere”, were framed as objects to be surveyed and regulated (Thomas, 1994: 4).

Lyneham Longbarrow

Nicholas Thomas suggested that it was a replica of the Breton Grand Tumuli at Carnac.



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