ANT204H5 Lecture : 20100224.docx
Document Summary
First contact: civilized vs. savage, australians being like oh hey sambians, you"re savage. Original footage focuses on simplicity and wonderment on primitives: framing them as bewildered children, framing primitives as children as simple people and unsophisticated. Now they"re flipping the footage and the sambians look normal and australians are barbaric. Representations of film: original footage form 1930s, australians in 1980s and their representation of that representation, we"re watching the tourists making their representations. We can look at the politics of representations. Pay attention to the photographic film/photograph have this amazing ideological appeal cuz they seem to be purely factual. Australian miners have power to represent the new guinea highlanders with their video cameras. All societies have capacity to think about otherness: evaluate, judge, create difference. What can also occur is a confrontation b/w texts: civilization text of miners and all others form sambains. Native self-recognize in colonial categories: see themselves as poor, savage, etc.
