TBB199Y1 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Tom Boellstorff, Episteme
26 May 2013
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We are sharing some parts of your ethnographic journal. Can read directly from journal or provide a summary. Handing in journals, can hand in online. Condoms seen as the last resort, less moral. Identity think of a monolithic category that defines who you are. Same in anthropology identity is a totalizing category that defines who you are, static. Your interpretations of who your area interaction with other people how others think of you, the categorizes other put you in. Subject position: many identities we have are multiple and contingent. We occupy many subject positions so our identities are not momliphic but multiple and contingent on the social context. Often the context itself force us in to the subject position. Born in 1926, died from aids, was gay. Got into the most prestigious university in france. Historian of thought and social institutions, was elected in by other scholars. History of madness- study of the modern concept of mental illness.
