EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noble Savage, Caucasian Race, Carl Linnaeus
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As the sun rose greatly to the scene . Sublime: not just beautiful nut rugged awe-full beauty, horror-stricken, awe- inspiring. Under what conditions: not everyone has some access to nature, way it is socially produced intertwines with social rationalization, beautiful, fabulous encounter. Never shall i forget feeling or natural courtesy : merely 2 pages later, so contradicts the beauty with what she deems ugly. She is describing them like they are animals. Perhaps the noble savage is not so noble after all: very scientific/clinical/anthropological, anthropology: the study of otherness, racial classification often have moral judgments attached clever and. Stubborn : these beliefs are very persuasive, popular, and regressive. Racial classification: carl linnaeus: early classifications of racial difference were identified by physical differences, other races were then constructed as being inferior by comparison. Blumenbach scientific racism the caucasian or white race the mongolian or yellow race the malayan or brown race the ethiopian, or black race the american or red race.
