HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sir Thomas Herbert, 1St Baronet, Edward Long, Travel Literature
Document Summary
Sex, women, and the groundwork of enslavement. Ethnography: the idea of outside viewers going to a society and their interpretations of it, descriptions so that other people understand an outside culture. Voyeurism: getting sexual pleasure from watching others. Describing cultures in ways that are sexually exciting. National geographic -- images of bare breasted women of other tribes that appear to be native and exotic, they are trying to tell us about another culture but sexualized it. Sex as a sign of (non) civilization. Contract no matrimonie, neither have respect to chastitie. Their women (not the men, just the women) are not moral. Where do they fall in the human hierarchy and are they civilized, all based on sex. They are brutish and savage because they do not live like the europeans. Womens sexual availability and bodies become a symbol of colonial control.
