ANTHRO 136K Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Libido, Tiger Mother, Bell Hooks
28 Jun 2018
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ANTHRO 139K - Lecture 8 - Bodies of Color and the Politics of Representation
Representations
●Constructed images, depictions, likenesses
●Represents individuals, groups, ideas, and events
●Formats include:
○Still images -- photographs, illustrations, paintings
○Moving images -- movies, TV, internet
○Text -- Books, magazines, etc.
○Music
○“Live” venues -- plays, operas, concerts, etc.
“Western” Mass Media Historical Timeline
●Up to the 1400s – hand made images: folk art, drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc.
●With the development of movable type and block printing in Europe (mid-1400s),
●reproduced images began to circulate more widely.
●With the industrial revolution, capitalism, and modernity came inventions that
mechanically reproduced images and sounds:
○Photography
○Moving pictures – silent, and then with sound
○Phonographs
○Radios
○Telephones
○Television
●With the digital age we live in a media saturated world in which we are constantly
consuming, generating, and transmitting sounds, texts, and still and moving images of
all kinds.
How Representations Are Political
●Through repetition they become normalized and naturalized
●People both recognize a representation and identify with a representation
●Representations categorize and label individuals, groups, ideas, and events
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Document Summary
Anthro 139k - lecture 8 - bodies of color and the politics of representation. Live venues -- plays, operas, concerts, etc. Up to the 1400s hand made images: folk art, drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc. With the development of movable type and block printing in europe (mid-1400s), Reproduced images began to circulate more widely. With the industrial revolution, capitalism, and modernity came inventions that mechanically reproduced images and sounds: Moving pictures silent, and then with sound. With the digital age we live in a media saturated world in which we are constantly consuming, generating, and transmitting sounds, texts, and still and moving images of all kinds. Through repetition they become normalized and naturalized. People both recognize a representation and identify with a representation. Representations categorize and label individuals, groups, ideas, and events. They have a point-of-view with built-in sociocultural norms and values that generally reflect the politics of the people who produced them.
