ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Jump Drive, Noble Savage, Spiritualism
13 Mar 2014
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James scott weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance. Between hegemonic compliance and collective defiance, there are subtle forms of everday resistsance: middle ground that poeple use in different kinds of situations when people are affected by power. Joining the photo frame: more people means more money. Requesting more money counting the shutterspeed of the cameras increase the cost when other elements are included; baby, dog, hut, etc. For tourists, the mursi are the embodiment of primitivism. Encounter is mostly about photos and the cost of permission: Tourists want to capture the exotic imagery of the mursi as "primitives" they don"t want the commercialization of the mursi"s culture: mursi plainly want money from their encounter. Tourists want to frame primitivism: mursi gain from photography by fictionalized representation (staged authenticity) control of the frame, clean photos that are decontextualized. Negative (savage savage?: without shame (eden) and sexually free.
