SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stalking Cat, The Lizardman, Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War
7 May 2019
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Inscriptions of animality on the human body not new. Early 1900s great omi (white man) had tattooist turn him into a human zebra of sorts. Entire face/head and most of body covered in black curvilinear design. Shift in human attitudes and relships w animals. Occurs around same time of tattoo revival and emergence of bm movements. Revived interest in nature end of 20th c. As destructive species, dangerous to natural enviro, including humans and nonhumans. Anti vietnam war, peace, gay liberation & womens movement. Changing socio attitudes towards animals: were becoming values in their own right. Animal rights groups raising concerns over mistreatment of. Increasingly portrayed as good, sentient have become fam members. Pop of zoos, contact w wild animals via ecotourism and wildlife parks. Shift also part of broader disaffection w modernity. Ie consumerism, tech, infiltration of the artificial and unnatural into daily life xenotransplantation.
