ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Darkest Africa, Environmental Health, Amelia Dyer
26 Jun 2016
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In the chapter the torso in the thames: imagining darkest africa in the united kingdom, . Todd sanders described the 2001 investigation surrounding the discovery of a torso belonging to. A young black boy found floating in the river thames (2005:126). Sanders began the chapter by describing the case"s development over the following two years. Sanders considers the consequences of the police-media engagement surrounding the investigation. During the same conference, police also announced the discovery of. Seven half-burnt candles wrapped in a white sheet in the thames (2005:127). The media suggested that the police believed the name on the sheet to be of west african origin. Simultaneously, the torso was linked to both south and west africa. No attention to the geographical, cultural and or religious differences was paid to the two vastly different locations. Rather, africa was being imagined, and not for the first time, as an undifferentiated entity (2005:131).
