The “cannibal” label classified which natives would submit to colonial rule

Evidence

In offi- cial missives the terms “Gayo” and “Acehnese” were distinguished in some accounts, but used interchangeably in others. How did Valck and his fellow reporters know how to tell a Gayo thief in the night from an Acehnese dissident? As we shall see, these terms often served to mark not ethnic identity but the degree of threat to this new colonial enterprise, those whose actions were to be classified as “common criminal” or “insurgent rebel.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest; Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions; Colonial ethnic labels measured threat level rather than actual ethnicity — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100 (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial ethnic categories broke down under acts both personal and political (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial ethnic labels measured threat level rather than actual ethnicity (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial discourse framed poor Indos as a biological racial threat (similarity 0.83)
• Brazilian planters assigned different African ethnic groups different natural temperaments (similarity 0.81)
• Jungle encampments held a multiethnic underclass defying neat colonial ethnic categories (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial archive labels disclosed political anxieties about mixed-blood domesticity. (similarity 0.79)
• Slaves’ own vocabulary sharpened divisions among white colonists (similarity 0.79)
• Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial use of ‘black’ did not necessarily denote African descent (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial ethnic labels measured threat level rather than actual ethnicity #corroborates (0.90) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100
• Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest #expands (0.88)
• English colonial ideology of savagery extended from the Irish to Africans and natives #expands (0.82)
• Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions #expands (0.80)
• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #corroborates (0.80)
• Progress in the racial myth is moving cannibalism to the past tense #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial discourse framed poor Indos as a biological racial threat #exemplifies (0.72)