ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Science, Premarital Sex, Maya Deren
16 Aug 2018
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Films: asch: the ax fight and deren: divine horsemen: the living gods of haiti (clips: forest of bliss instead of one single tree: a bigger picture of the culture, mixing rituals that don"t necessarily go together. Profound hindu insight by depicting how life and death mix. Stanley cavel/harvard prof: the lack of western words is a kind of respect to the hindu culture, because it respects the difference of language, culture does not put our word on their culture. Different ways of being in the world, we should respect those. Danger of exoticise the other => gary larson"s cartoon the far side : when natives see the anthropologists coming, they put away the dcr, the television and the telephone, trying to hide the similarities. We have to keep in mind that sometimes we are just looking for things that are exotic.
