ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Identity, Ethnography, Ethnocentrism
12 Apr 2016
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Representation: how we depict people in our writing or through lm/pictures. Ethical responsibility to provide a fair representation & to think critically about how certain representations may negatively affect the people we study. Indigenous group of approximately 30,000 people in amazonian regions of brazil & Today, some live in westernized villages & others in traditional villages. Traditionally, horticulturalists & they supplement that with hunting & shing. Had fairly limited with loggers in the 1800"s. Christian missionaries in the 1950"s came in to try to convert them to christianity: they believe in shamans. Tuesday, september 22, 2015: yanomamo: the fierce people (1968) Depicted as scary, exotic, primitive, amazonian: the axe fight - lm. Is alleged to have created harmful & essentialist representations of the yanomamo for his own personal gain: he created these sensationalistic images to gain fame, money, etc. What is essentialism: creating stereotypes & generalizations about cultures & groups of people, ie. all canadians are __________.
