HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leo Africanus, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1St Baronet, John Lok
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Ethnography=outsiders come to understand and explain other cultures. Voyeurism=practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others. Europeans describing africans in a way that is meant to be scientific but is actually a lot about erotic pleasure. National geographic was infamous for having naked women of other cultures. The first image of the nearly naked male: nearly shows genitalia, painted as an. The second image of the topless woman: exotic prepubescent girl carrying school books in native dress, creating race via women"s bodies, the fact that they could photograph her naked marks her as uncivilized. Voyage of john lok: meant to organize africans in a social hierarchy, rationalizes african enslavement. People of beastly living relates them to animals, garamante women- contract no matrimonie, neither have respect to chastite because women don"t get married and have sex proves they are beastly. He says they don"t have a government and don"t raise animals-they don"t live like we do and are therefore savages.