ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inuksuk, Cultural Appropriation, Essentialism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

Cultural appropriation as theft : under what conditions might some regard appropriation as theft, or alternatively as misappropriation, decontextualization of objects. Appropriation of indigenous peoples: sara baartman, khoi khoi woman from south africa, the hottentot venus , put on view ike a zoo, paid to see her, too her out of her home and put her in zoo/ carnival. Inukshuk: used as territorial pinpoints, put them down for warnings, and geographical help. Film- plastic shamans and white medicinee men (1996)