ANTH 202 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
10 Mar 2016
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Writing is wrapped up in being there and how we represent it. It is an extension of our minds; it is empowering to write. L vi-strauss: amazonian chief who did not know how to write but saw the significant power in writing. Writing figures in the actual process of doing anthropology, a way of life; writing badly is a way of writing well. Malinowski: difficulties of fieldwork, angers, frustrations; he lusts after women, contemplates his work, gets (cid:373)ad at (cid:862)(cid:374)iggers(cid:863); we also get a se(cid:374)se of his frie(cid:374)dships, flue(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) i(cid:374) the la(cid:374)guage. A(cid:374) e(cid:272)le(cid:272)ti(cid:272) (cid:373)i(cid:454) of everything he goes through. Taussig: meaning of what he saw in the tunnel. He thinks through field sket(cid:272)hes; (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of i(cid:373)ages. A spiritual a(cid:272)t (cid:862)i swear i saw it(cid:863) as if sweari(cid:374)g o(cid:374) the bi(cid:271)le. Pirits, drawings are copies of being in the world. Kohn (avila) group mind, no time that everyone if fully asleep or fully awake.
