ANTH 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Objectification, Female Sex Tourism, Sex Tourism
Document Summary
Unit iii: colonial legacies: review, colonial legacies. The centrality of racial difference in colonial discourses. Class and race and sexuality linked in colonial encounters. Sexual acts and identities have been impacted by discourses and values developed during the colonial era . Language used to describe mumbai = primitive ; taming nature out of. Orientalism is a discourse by which european culture was able to imagine and manage a geographic space labeled the orient , and the people living within that space: orientalism (edward said) Product of the western imagination; when we hear the orient talked about, what we re seeing is the set of ideas that correspond with european views of locations. Western representation about power and colonial dominance over colonies. Contrast to western society: nature vs. technology extrapolations of european standpoint of the orient: sex tourism typically far from home to sight see, learn about other cultures, adventures, Traveling to a place other than your home, to another destination.
