HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leo Africanus, John Lok, Voyeurism
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Trans-atlantic slavery: european perspectives on africans, gender and sexuality defined civilization, primary source excerpts, trans-atlantic slave trade, slave trading coast, middle passage, construction of race, control of bodies. Ethnographic voyeurism: ethnography = a form of anthropology used to study culture and understand them on their own terms, voyeurism = the practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others engaging in sexual activity. Europeans do; therefore, they are savages: (cid:862)(cid:374)either had they a(cid:374)y pe(cid:272)uliar (cid:449)i(cid:448)es(cid:863) (cid:894)le(cid:373)a(cid:374) = (cid:373)istress(cid:895) -> no specific wife, sleep with multiple women, no proper marital government, lack of clear gender boundary, (cid:862)hayrie ski(cid:374)(cid:374)es(cid:863) -> animalistic. Childbirth as a sign of savagery: belief that african women have easy childbirth, european narrative (1625, (cid:862)doe their (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess(cid:863, african women go back to work the day after giving birth. Breastfeeding as a sign of otherness/savagery: 1604 travel narrative, african women prop their children over her shoulder to breastfeed them, barbarism, through 1700s.
