ANTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnic Group, Racialization, Sherry Ortner
23 May 2018
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ANTH # 407 – Winter 2018
Wednesday March 14th, 2018
Announcements: first class post march break. Abstract and outline due next class. A page or
two is fine. The professor will put a sample up soon.
Lecture # 7
Week # 9 readings: Duster, Fulwiley, Nelson, and Clarke.
Exercise: lookig at professor Hde’s favorite agazies. This is a group of 2 to look at
representation in them.
• We did the group work together.
• Title: maison & demerure
o White women: 23
▪ White woman can only have the nice houses
▪ Drinking coffee
▪ Commenting on mustard colour
o Dogs: 3
o Cat: 1
o White couple: 1 + 3x + 1
o Collaborators: 2 white men and 1 woman
o White mom & child: 1
o White dad & child: 1
o Black chef being compared to white chef.
▪ 3 white artisans and one black one.
▪ 1 extra white chef
o White arm: 1
o White baby: 1
o White man: 8 + Greek/roman painting
Professor presentation
Butlers gender: as a performance that we need to continually practice.
What ways are you racialized or not, what ways do you preform your ethnicity?
Ethnicity:
• is the cultural characteristic that connect a particular group pf people to each other
• Anthropologists have replicated this simple notion of ethnicity because we need to look
at them through time and place because they are fluid and they change.
• Anthropologist are interested in ethnicity and politically set of practices. They are not
fixed.
• Labored disentanglement is discredited by a nation of race.
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Document Summary
The professor will put a sample up soon. Week # 9 readings: duster, fulwiley, nelson, and clarke. Butlers gender: as a performance that we need to continually practice. They are not fixed: labored disentanglement is discredited by a nation of race. Anth # 407 winter 2018: mid 19th century the terms ethnic and racial came into common use post darwinian scientists, ethnic was used as opposed the term ethnicity, ethnic was used to re-inscribe notions. Specifically, the ordering of non-european people: human races were thought to be the produce of divine creation, pol(cid:455)ge(cid:374)esis"s separate crati. In the 20th century ethnics included lower class whites (jews, uncolonized) Ideas of ethnicity is relational, and assumes difference between groups: ethnic described the natural and fixed characteristics of the person in the 19th century, boas: Anth # 407 winter 2018: there was a tendency to look at exotic groups.
