ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Speculative Fiction, Canadian Identity, Invisibility
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The muslim, the jew, and the african american: America and the production of alterity in borat. anthropology news 24(4): 13- Don"t it make my black face blue: race, avatars, Albescence and the transnational imaginary. journal of popular culture, 46(1): Review of what we have learnt so far: How do humans produce meaning: we looked at the reduction of meaning through signs and symbols, through discourse, participation strategies, performance, and imitation. In terms of what meanings are produced, we took a look at canadian identity, the appropriation of first nations in canadian identity, production of native. We looked at semiotic strategies, anthropological concepts, and many definitions. Examples in readings: district 9, avatar, borat. Quotes from the russell article to start off: Speculative fiction should by definition provide a canvas to give free rein to the imagination, to boldly go where no trop has gone before (russell. Images and ideologies of blackness: invisibility and concealment.
