ANTHRO 3AC Lecture 2: Lecture 2.2 - Problems of Difference
26 Sep 2018
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Problems of difference: explanations of the conquest. 1. 2 todorov"s argument: the decisive importance of communication. Communication is key in effective global markets. Derived or is based to imagine the radically different: a future example. Knife = symbol of coming together (not violence) Interpretation of the first officers: project/imagine the situation/narrative of the warfare. Contrast between two sets of parallel figures. Solution was made easier by the darmok figure. Tamarians used metaphor and narrative: aztecs experience of alterity. Darmok & tanagra = working toward peaceful resolution. Aztecs view spaniards as gods: spanish experience alterity. In film: both sides see the radically other as a threat (no elevation) Demote aztecs & indians to dogs/beasts: similarities/differences. Both due so based on prior structures of interpretation. In the denial of humanity, one veneration, one with murder: the understanding that kills. Not only did the spanish understand the aztecs quite well, they admired them and yet they annihilated them, why? .
