SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Muscatine, Iowa, Participant Observation
24 Oct 2016
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American history tends to focus on english protestants who settled east coast at expense of american indians and spanish settlers. Monuments may commemorate things that never happened. The first account of the almo massacre was in 1927 and was credited to an old trapper . The story fits the stereotype of savage indians. Fewer than 200 of 400,000 plains pioneers between 1842-1859 were killed by indians. Whites often used devil as a place name for indian holy sites. Attempting to revise markers may meet with resistance. The wording of a marker near woodstock, virginia, was revised after the marker was damaged by a snowplow. Monuments (as material culture) both reflect nonmaterial culture and shape it. Monuments tell the tale of two eras (era of when it happened and when it was put up) The past is often quite different than history . Common sense belief - our emotions represent our true self, not social rules.
