ANTC15H3 Lecture : Antc15 Lecture notes part 2
Document Summary
Use of suedo-science to make powerful truth claims --> ideology masked as science - Racial science + sex science shift to ambiguity. Race, gender, and seuality are separate categories but made sense of as interrelated. Today: tlk abt how colonial projects relied on makign sense of categories. Povinelli article is how aboriginal sovereignty in australia is depicted. Any sign of having a proper family (ie conjugal relships) Povinelli shows that in the absence of concrete defn of what it means to be socially empty, the writings of colonial memoirs try to speculate why its empty. Povinelli argues that the key point of this emptiness is sex acts ie their sex acts and relships w/ each other. The dreaming: ref as the time before time. Ref to as time outside of time (ie diff kind of time altogether)eternal time (parallel time) structuring social life. Diff time that structures the time we live in.
