SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Expo 58, Fig Leaf, Atavism
13 Oct 2016
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Media and images of inequality lecture notes, october 5th. No multiple choice but some definitions (gives us 6 and we have to define 3, including the significance of the term to our course) We will never know, because her own opinions and beliefs and values were never recorded, only what the white scientists constructed her as; we will only know her physical attributes and what others have said about her. Her body comes to represent the body of all others. The colonial expansions of the 18th and 19th centuries shaped european science, and. Cuvier"s dissection of baartmann was a natural extension of that shaping; scientists tried to lay their own fears to rest at the expensive of others by providing negative scientific information about the others. The study and representation of the other is a top down approach that imposes western standards/terms/definitions on non-western cultures, practices and beliefs.
