Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Sough
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Anthro 4400 notes on reading of mimicry and. Membership: africans and the new world society by james ferguson. Two boys were found dead in plane strip in brussels with a letter that pleaded europe to come save africa. It said they suffer from war, disease and malnutrition and to especially come save the children. They said they had schools but a lack of education and teaching. The author says it is an embarrassment for them for africans to be pleading whites to help them. The cultural other wanting to become like europe. In one way colonial rulers wanted their colonized to mold into image of europeans. But at same time they did not want them to do so excessively as this threatened the colonial order. When does mimicry become mockery or its own form. For anthropologists they emphasized a racist colonialist ideal that whites were superior. Anthropologists were embarrassed by africans wanting to be them.