ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simone De Beauvoir, Ethnography
8 Jun 2018
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Socio-Cultural Anthropology ANTH 202
Class 9 – Power, Marginality and “the Other”
THE “OTHER”:
• Philosophy / Psychology
The “Other” = dissimilar to or opposite of the “Self” / “Us” / “Same”
The “Other” as constituent part of Self – required counterpart
Critical Theory / Anthropology:
“Otherness” rooted in Western colonial encounters (with non-Westerners)
Preserves dominator-dominated discourse of colonial imperialism
Representations of the other → discourses of domination and subordination (Asymmetrical
relations – “Other” outside of social norm)
“Other” ≠ “human” (cf Fanon)
“OTHER”
- Perceived as different in terms of social identity
- Non-conformity to social norms of a “dominant” society
- Condition of alienation or political exclusion
- Notions of marginality
OTHERING
- Persons as aliens with a ≠ social identity
- “Labelling” as belonging to a subordinate social category → “Other”
- Excluding those not fitting in norms of social group
- Imaginary representations – Hegemony and privilege
Colonial Other:
Representation of subaltern nations
“White man’s burden”
→
discourse of civilization, moral responsibility
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Document Summary
Class 9 power, marginality and the other . The other = dissimilar to or opposite of the self / us / same . The other as constituent part of self required counterpart. Otherness rooted in western colonial encounters (with non-westerners) Representations of the other discourses of domination and subordination (asymmetrical relations other outside of social norm) Perceived as different in terms of social identity. Non-conformity to social norms of a dominant society. Persons as aliens with a social identity. Labelling as belonging to a subordinate social category other . Excluding those not fitting in norms of social group. White man"s burden discourse of civilization, moral responsibility. Woman as the other the second sex simone de beauvoir. Male = dominant cult; men taken as standard of normality/society. Men = neutral, women are defined in relation to them. Indigenous peoples noble savage as the other. Noble savage having maintained values that were lost in western communities.
