HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Lok, Voyeurism, Childbirth
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Ethnographic voyeurism ethnography, study of people according to their customs or beliefs. Voyeurism, enjoy watching sexual acts, or sexualising. Hayrie skinnes = wearing skins of animals with the fur still intact , depicting themselves as animals. Leman = mistress, elicit lover [sexualization of africa] Lived a brutish and savage life, without any kind, governour. Husbandry - taking care of domestic animals [economic perspective] Easy childbirth [europeans believed aa"s had a very easy childbirth] Focusing on women"s bodies to define the hierarchies of human of europeans v. Can"t tell a man and a women apart, besides her breast. Continuously compares the women"s breast to an animal. Enslaved: (cid:1445)as cows do(cid:1446) referring to how they choose their partners. Slave factories: the littoral refers to the coastal area near a body of water, but historians talk about when captives become slaves, humans become commodities.