ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Theodor Herzl, Manifest Destiny, Ethnography
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Comparative ethnographies: she is looking for our ability to compare ishi the last yahi and films (two seperate colonialisms)- alex lubin"s text is important. Manifest destiny: the idea that americans should conquer the west part of. America and they should govern (it was used to justify the robbery of the land and hide the slavement of people) It is the belief or doctorine held chiefly in the middle and later part of 19th century that it was the destiny of usa to expand its territory over the whole of north. Alex lubin talks about how americans can be prone to feel sorry for the israelis from long time ago (they see israelis as being similar to them therefore they see the palestinians as being like the native americans) Good use of comparisi=on: when you are able to deconstruct and see the ideologies that underlie the cultural/political things. Bad use of comparision: when you use your perspective to analyze other cultures.
