SOC 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Robert J. Flaherty, Noble Savage, Ethnographic Film

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 108
• Professor: Julie Tomiak

Document Summary

Week 10: representations, discourses, and the invented indian. I(cid:374)uit a(cid:272)to(cid:396)s a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot ide(cid:374)tified as su(cid:272)h o(cid:396) (cid:271)y (cid:374)a(cid:373)e; na(cid:374)ook"s (cid:396)eal (cid:374)a(cid:373)e is allaka(cid:396)iallak: false (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s of (cid:862)authe(cid:374)ti(cid:272)(cid:863) depiction of inuit life (staged performances of traditional. It weaves history, geography, aesthetics, science and even comedy into a national imaginary that invokes a metaphor of (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e"s pu(cid:396)ity to (cid:396)ei(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)s of (cid:396)a(cid:272)ial pu(cid:396)ity(cid:863) (cid:894)bald(cid:449)i(cid:374), ca(cid:373)e(cid:396)o(cid:374) a(cid:374)d ko(cid:271)ayashi. Representations of inuit: (cid:862)a ste(cid:396)eotype of the i(cid:374)uit as p(cid:396)i(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e yet pleasa(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d happy de(cid:448)eloped i(cid:374) t(cid:449)e(cid:374)tieth (cid:272)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)y t(cid:396)a(cid:448)el lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e(cid:863) (cid:894)hula(cid:374) 2002, (cid:1010)(cid:1009)(cid:895) I(cid:374)uit a(cid:396)e des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed as: helpless (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)s (cid:894)(cid:862)poo(cid:396) (cid:374)ati(cid:448)es(cid:863)(cid:895), i(cid:374)dust(cid:396)ious, (cid:272)hee(cid:396)ful, happy, threatened by extinction, innocent and afflicted, objects of paternalistic care, feminized, and passive (hulan2002) Inuit self-representations: destabilize binaries and contest the notion that the arctic is empty, homogenous space, but the whitestream continues to perceive inuit self-representations through colonial frames. I(cid:374)uit lite(cid:396)a(cid:396)y p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) is ofte(cid:374) i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)tilized, (cid:272)lassified as (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e (assumption that such writing only has anthropological value)