ANT 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jacques Lacan, Ethnography
31 Oct 2015
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Terms/concepts: epidermalization of inferiority, homogenize experiences, rhetorical devices/qualities, inextricably, psychopathology of colonialism. Logistics: preliminary notes 2-3 pages due on monday, two examples of final papers on smartsite, final papers. -maybe interviewee if they"d rather provide written responses to answers, if more comfortable than verbal interview. -what is coherent to the interviewee, rather than coherence of their individual story (relates concepts from tuhami) Ideas/reflections: fanon is saying that the negro/colonized is locked up/caged in by the gaze/perception imposed on them by the colonized/whites-form of imprisonment. Jacques lacan (1901-1981: the mirror stage (1977, child development mother"s body/breast have a moment in which it perceives itself/sees itself in mirror and identifies as other from mother (6-7mo/1 year) Children after being nursed/in a symbiotic experience with the: knows that their silhouette is distinct and reflects an autonomous being, develops a theory of subjectivity, imago -image; a category/image in which we can be imprisoned because it can be.
