HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Two-Spirit, Noble Savage, Judith Butler
12 Mar 2014
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Beyond gender binaries: berdaches and manly-hearted women: gender, sexual colonialism: european projections of sodomy, two-spirit marriages, decline of the two-spirit tradition. Disgraceful degradation = two spirited people but recognized that the aboriginal people see them as sacred. Meant to refer to a social position not a sexual position: two-spirited marriage, two-spirited often married the same sex, edwig dunning, manly hearted women were bold, and sexually forward. Europeans: what happened to the berdaches, the attempt to wipe out the berdache. Johnathan kats: systematically imposed their own ideas (europeans) Is not word for polygamy in the aboriginal languages. Duncan campbell scott"s mission: 1886 panic over the traffic in indian girls , moral panic: social issue enters the public realm, a moment that is not real but perceived as if it is, traffic of indian girls. Said to involve the selling of young aboriginal women to white men but it was a euro-canadian misapprehension of marital ceremony in aboriginal culture.
