HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leo Africanus, Edward Long, Childbirth
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European perspectives on africans: gender and sexuality define civilization, ethnographic voyeurism: in the guise of explaining other cultures, there is a build of sexual pleasure in it. Ex: the picture of the african man as sexualized and made to be exotic. Another ex: the yap island girl being topless in the national geographic: e(cid:454) as a sig(cid:374) of (cid:894)(cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:895) (cid:272)i(cid:448)ilizatio(cid:374): (cid:862)people of (cid:271)eastl(cid:455) li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:863, ga(cid:396)a(cid:373)a(cid:374)te (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374): (cid:862)co(cid:374)t(cid:396)a(cid:272)t (cid:374)o (cid:373)at(cid:396)i(cid:373)o(cid:374)ie, (cid:374)either have (cid:396)espe(cid:272)t to (cid:272)hastitie(cid:863). Focus on childbirth being easy because christian women have pain during childbirth because eve messed up and cursed them. Thus, african people are divided from european christianity and civilization: breastfeeding as a sign of othernees/savagery: 1604 travel. Narrative shows them breastfeeding over their shoulder instead of being cradled in front of them like europeans. Done through the 1700s: primary source excerpts, signs of savagery (1634, sir thomas herbert): the woman is breastfeeding over her shoulder and is holding inners which makes.
