ANTH 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Said, Ethnography, Patrilineality
18 Feb 2017
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Feminist scholarship to write against monolithic representations of the arab muslim woman, seen as an a-historical subject oppressed by her religion, her culture. Anthropology to write against culture (i. e. against tendency to essentialize and typify cultural groups) American public sphere to write against public perception of muslim women in the us as universally oppressed. Not based on notion that women have a different sensibility. Relation of self to others as a relation of power. Draws on emerging anthropological concerns for issues of writing, representation, knowledge production, and reflexivity. Orientalism (edward said): a cultural discourse; refers to the extensive set of discourses about the orient (i. e. about eastern and arab cultures) as seen by the west. Said an image outside of history . Said a creation of an ideal other for europe . Jhally yet present itself as objective knowledge . Culture, for her = an essential tool for making others .
