HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Voyeurism, Franciscans, Early Modern Europe
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Frontiers: typical notion is a border between the uncivilized wilderness of the. But in reality, it is much more of a borderland, and area, not simply a line. Gender: sex refers to biology, gender refers to the ideals and norms that go along with male and female. Ex) boys like trucks, girls like princesses. Cultural encounters: cultural encounters occur on gender frontiers, confrontation of different gender systems and ideologies that challenge natural categories. The archive, beyond text, oral histories and myths. What we know is read through european eyes- perspective, must differentiate what they believe about what they are seeing versus what they are actually seeing. The image: native americans didn"t actually farm in neat rows or with hoes. Individuals are portrayed in an ethnographic voyeurism manner, not portraying the reality of hard farming work. The erotic is part of the natural world. They named parts of the natural world after sexual terms.
