THEA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Zoo, Sepik, Neocolonialism
21 Apr 2015
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Grades from presentation will go into grades from first semester. Bioethnical arguments don"t allow the right to sell based on european-american notions of contract and individual choices. Encounter with civilized vs. primitive people or the sepik river. Belief that your race is more superior. Your ethnicity at the center: colonialism (neo-colonialism) 1st and 3rd world relations, cultural change. Tourists want to see past culture: cultural contestation. Interacts with the globalized world: enduring effects of dominant discourse. Ideological power practice by _______ = universal: becomes common sense, complementary to economic. Common sense beliefs/propositions that, in people"s point of view is prudent and of sound judgment. Economic and political power = rise to linguistic: linguistic = power to name, construct and define. Orientationalism constructed the orient, which is opposite to the west: seen as what you don"t want to be, framed through: Literary texts: images, theories: from racial other to racial norm, common sense perpetuate superiority.
