ANTH 23 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Racism, Black People, Norm (Social)
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East and west discourse and power: what is the west? . Like race, it is a discourse, not an objective fact: maps are also a type of discourse. Mercator projection that has a lot of distortion given that the world is spherical but attened, this stretches the northern and southern regions of the world. This also put europe in the center, as it was made my european men and this placement of europe in the center greatly strengthens its importance and continents like. Most modern, more geographically accurate maps also put europe in the center, particularly western europe. In contrast to this, in china they out china in the center and europe way over in the western region. How we represent the world really a ects how we say it, it could be accidental or intentional. Maps too as a part of a discourse that creates and organizes knowledge and power.
