ANTHROP 3PD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kennewick Man, Guy Debord, Steatopygia
18 Apr 2018
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Museums, tourism are examples of new modernist spectacles (forms of mass education in the guise of entertainment and consumption) Consumption = entertainment and a source of pleasure. The objectifying and ocularcentric principles of the museum, tourist experience (framed experiences) spill into the everyday. Visual or discursive (written) representations often involve the objectification of particular bodies. Particular (classed, racialized, gendered) bodies are often subject to various stereotypes and forms of othering and cultural appropriation. Example: sara baartman: khoisan woman, 1970-1815, key issues, baartman"s body (both alive and dead) functioned to highlight the. Veracity of unilineal evolutionary frameworks (baartman perceived as. And anyone else who thinks this is just if only it were really that simple. Indian tribe: tribe, band, or nation recognized by us gov"t reasonably traced historically or prehistorically between a present day. Indian tribe or native hawaiian organization and an identifiable earlier group. : nagpra, kennewick man, found in kennewick, wa in 1996; approx.
