ANTH 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ectasia, Counterpoint, Retina
11 Apr 2018
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Subject and object are separate: feeds political agenda of colonizing. Act of collecting, writing, organizing, classifying is all one comprising (can"t separate one operation from the other) By tradition, doesn"t matter how you get the object/info (trickery, lies) Travelers were ectasic (out of their mind/self); a counterpoint to reason/self-control they claimed to be collecting: literally; high, drunk, sick, lose control during the travel, encounter moments of crisis. We can"t let imperialism off the hook for insanity (ectasis is not a methodology) 280. Story of explorer in the congo (same region fabian refers to) Fear of unknown but desire to see the other met. Argues against philosophy, uses it as a target. Challenges feuer bach, a philosopher who questioned human nature and their relationship with the world: brings dialects of marx and hegel (bridges, is it people that make the world or is it the world that makes the people.
