ANTH 23 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institutional Racism, Noble Savage, World Music
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Media, pop culture, politicians produce social inequalities through discourse. Discourse: set of statements that provide means for representing knowledge; limit knowledge constructed in other ways; enables classification, set of images, model of comparison, criteria of evaluation; changes form over time. Regime of truth: discourse contests and constructs truth instead of trying to discover it; in power; produce discourse have power to make it true; when discourse is successful in organizing power relations. West/whiteness emerged when europeans contrasted with others. Stereotypical dualism: stereotype divided into good and bad aspects/sides. Orientalism: depicting cultures in romanticizing, exoticizing, condescending way to replicate and justify power disputes. Stereotypes reduce other to cardboard cut-out, ho humanity/agency; project fantasies/fears; impose norms; portray other as ideal/antithesis, never human. Nationalism: belief that cultural/ethnic boundaries should correspond to political boundaries. Ethnicity: subjectively and socially constructed, dynamic, relational, negotiable; agreed upon social practices, real/imagined sense of shared history/kinship; membership based on commitment.
