ANTH205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Madea, Northern Illinois University Shooting
22 May 2018
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INHUMAN AND INHUMANE HUMANS
MONDAY, 4/23 & WEDNESDAY, 4/25
Get Out’s Lessons on Common Vulnerabilities
● Vulnerabilities are not weaknesses, but when the vulnerabilities limit us or cause us to
make decisions based on them being equal to being weak, we make mistakes
● Vulnerabilities involve the ways in which we might be perceived as weak
● What do we learn from the physically and emotionally vulnerable protagonist?
● What do we learn from what the protagonist did “wrong”?
○ “Reading” people and trusting your cultural perceptiveness
○ Knowing when to flee
○ Recognizing aberrant behavior
Remember the borders between the human nature and nurture of fear
● Yes, these are repetitive statements
● Nature is the experiencing of anger, fear, and love
○ The brain has evolved to product emotions and instruct reflexive bodily
responses through hormones and neurochemicals that trigger emotions
● Nurture is the cultural beliefs, practices, rituals, etc. developed to control and manage
emotions
○ The brain has a role in theis too
○ learning/teaching, creating and innovating are human natural abilities. The
human brain is designed by nature to learn and create cultural rules
○ Every culture, because of environmental, historical and collective experimental
circumstances, devises norms for addressing emotions; for displaying emotions;
for managing the potential outcomes of acting on emotions
Inhuman Violence
● Unmanaged emotions that influence indiscriminate violence against the species are
scary and repugnant
○ “The parameter of the monster epithet are not infinitely malleable. And one can
assume that ordinary language users are somewhat coherent (encultured) in
their application of such labels.
○ Often the label is applied to those criminals who transcend the usual or traditional
motives of violent crime…
○ A criminal who kills for economic gain or for romantic revenge is odious to be
sure, but at least he’s understandable in principle. Such a villain is certainly a
tragedy, but still a distant relation to the human family.
○ The label monster, on the other hand, is usually reserved for a person whose
actions have placed him outside the range of humanity.” (Asma, p. 205)
Media Manifestations of the Rules for Managing Fear & Violence
Walking Dead a Mirror to Socio-Political Anxieties
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Document Summary
Vulnerabilities are not weaknesses, but when the vulnerabilities limit us or cause us to make decisions based on them being equal to being weak, we make mistakes. Vulnerabilities involve the ways in which we might be perceived as weak. Remember the borders between the human nature and nurture of fear. Nature is the experiencing of anger, fear, and love. The brain has evolved to product emotions and instruct reflexive bodily responses through hormones and neurochemicals that trigger emotions. Nurture is the cultural beliefs, practices, rituals, etc. developed to control and manage emotions. The brain has a role in theis too learning/teaching, creating and innovating are human natural abilities. The human brain is designed by nature to learn and create cultural rules. Every culture, because of environmental, historical and collective experimental circumstances, devises norms for addressing emotions; for displaying emotions; for managing the potential outcomes of acting on emotions.
