ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hooj Choons, Basket Weaving
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Reading: prins visual media and the primitivist perplex . Turn around in which they have started producing films about native culture. Show icons in given manner to affect people"s views. Red power: images known to show american indians in negative light, but some show positive side, political and civil movements, environmental relationship. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it chief joseph. Vanishing indian idea that the american indian is trapped in the past. Romanticize non-western cultures and people of color. Find people believed to be disappearing or have cultures in risk of going extinct. Indigenous film is trying to change how we think about native people. *even today american indians have low education rates in usa. Fourth world: encapsulated native people encapsulated by foreign government. Problem lies in presumptions: belong to certain place, has certain political connection, set cultural aspects food, clothing, language.
