ANTB05H3 Lecture Notes - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alterity, World War I
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Chimamanda adichie: the danger of a single story. Single story is showing people as one thing over and over again and that is what they become. Single stories are incomplete and make one story become the only story. When we reject the single story, we regain a kind of paradise. The object of anthropological study is different from the eye that observes westerners. Refers to nicerema a description about how tribe goes in bathroom (called medicine place). Truly the way anthropologists write about other people and the quest to paint your subjects/objects that are fundamentally different from you. Emergence of two disciplines is division of labor. Big difference between how it was practiced in the past to now. Difference the idea that you can understand someone from the perspective of standing aside and looking back. They story told about the anthropologist is about difference, talks about similarities.
