ANT 252 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Iron Eyes Cody, Keep America Beautiful, Trobriand Islands
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Studied the islander"s knowledge of gardening, canoe building, and navigation. He concluded that primitive humanity was aware of the scientific laws of natural process as well as magical processes. Implied that modern knowledge operated partly on non-scientific principles of magic and religion and both were claiming that non-western people could be scientific too. An anti-pollution ad featuring the american indian. (portrayed by an italian-american actor with the name iron. Made the native americans seem trivial - and that all they cared about was littering and pollution. Made them seem like a notion of the past. Stereotype that native people are natural environmentalists and always in tune with the natural world. These stereotypes are romantic and obscure the real conditions under which a group of people relate to the nature. Between the 18th and 19th centuries, the english parliament privatized a lot of the held by small farmers.
