ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Essentialism, Ethnography, Ethnocentrism
8 Sep 2018
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Who are the yanomamo: they are an indigenous group of approximately 30. 000 people in amazonian regions of. Is to have created harmful and essentialist representations of the yanomamo for his own personal gain. Tourist industry: how has the tourist industry created essentialist images of various peoples and places, many peoples/ places represented as exotic or primitive. What does this mean: tourists sell these idea using the id, case study: hawaiian tourism. In 1954, they were selling the idea of another time that is untouched by civilization. Survivor: people taken to a place that is exotic, completely foreign and out of time, they completely culturally constructed the island to better fit the viewers wants. Identity: learned personal and social types of affiliation that help us learn how to belong in society, ex. Age, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, social class, nationality, race, ethnicity, religious, spiritual identity. Anthropologists: are interested in how culture shapes our identities.
