ANTH 202 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
10 Mar 2016
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Listening as a way of being in the world, listening as a kind of receptivity to the world, to others. To really listen puts you in a radical relationship to that person, we witness their humanity and understand deeply what they are trying to say. The shifting of perspective that happens with listening is a form of becoming other and is central to a form of shamanistic experience (becoming a jaguar, a colonial agent, learning spanish) Listening is transformative and we do far too little of it. Anthropology is interested in the multiplicity of human life otherness. Very simply, this means that other people are fundamentally not us. The hold that life has on the other. Photographs can also be a way of listening as you see what was in that moment. Having actual items can be very anthropological to tell a story.
