ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnography, Neoliberalism, Gift Economy
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Movie - next door but invisible: the world of homelessness and drug addiction. Book insist on avoiding an enjoyment or fascination of suffering. Voyeurism is an intense watching of something in the world: removal from vision; you are watching but that is it, we are not engaged, we have to train our minds to a different encounter. Emotions do not have to be done away with but we can"t just be fascinated but must ask what can we do about it: how to deal with it. Avoid essentialization of difference: you assume that this person is made up of this unchanging essence, the person is homogenous and unchanging across the group, ex. The homeless don"t want to work: you are describing an intention to the whole social group, if people have essences then people who are in the group are different from other groups.
