ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Evans, 1St Baron Mountevans, Libya
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In this view, history belongs to europeans, who set history in notion through power and conquest. The ideas of social evolution still very strong. Treated north americans as primitives" who could teach us something about our prehistory. Once they had been conquered, clothed etc, they were no longer of interest to the early anthropologists, no longer interesting for science: 2. In turning ishi into an exhibit, he is being objectified: reification: we have taken something that is alive and changing and we"ve frozen it and have objectified it therefore turning it into a thing, 3. Was ishi uncontaminated before 1911: ishi had been hunted and in hiding for 30 years, since the. 1860s, because of european settlement, violence, and theft. His was of life was already completely contaminated : if he seemed wild it is because he was forced to become wild to survive.
