ANTH 3120 Study Guide - Edward Said, Techne, Ikea
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Tourist gaze what is it: form of visual consumption. Increasingly involves techne (the intentional, human extension of a natural process) A way of affirming one"s own identity by stigmatizing others. Categorizing people by saying other people are different; the real. English, and the people of english colonies for example. Colonialism colonizes another country in the form of exploitation for example. Exploitation or subjectifation of people, a system of control. You use those places for labour, resources, you control their trade and you do it through military power (troops). That"s why we are post- colonialism because these countries have had their independence after decades. Shaped by edward said, a scholar developed this concept. In his book, he was talking about this othering process and discussed the way that people in the middle east were studied by the europeans. Orientalism id saying there is a way of discussing these people in the middle east and we need to understand why it exists.