ANTH 2120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Carte De Visite, Rodney King, Kayapo People
18 Apr 2014
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Monster: this refers to the image of terrorists as they are viewed as sexual monsters. This sheds light on the idea that the terrorist is a figure of perversity or failed heterosexuality. Failed heterosexuals can only be created in degraded ways. The terrorist is a failed heterosexual while the western man is successfully heterosexual: commodity racism, commodity racism targets an audience by using the human body to sell a product. The ideology of race was a way to legitimize slavery and imperialism. Advertisements were able to exploit the others" or the primitive peoples as a vehicle to sell products. The primitive were illiterate, dependent upon the natural world rather than the masters of it, and lacking in complex social institution and mechanical technology. Whereas the civilized were highly literate, christian, developed technology, controlled nature, and brought the blessing of civilization to the heathen and to the primitive.
