ANTH 1120 Lecture 3: Lecutre Notes
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All have common themes: sun, sun sets. Create a feeling for us: africa is a place of adventure. Nature: make us think africa is a big natural place. Create africa: africa is homogenous where its all the saem. Media shape what they are telling: convey meaning. Sander: how the media represented the torso of a black boy. Part of a long history of how africans are deminizaed for crime in england. Report of this: african custom: practice witchcraft. Modern technology and medicine that white britains have. He is an expert he has been to a place where people practice. Effect that this will have on immigrants. Reproduces an old story: africans and premitives. Maps on to what brtish people think africans do. African culture doesn"t exist irrational and different. Africa is a continent with many different cultures. Africa does not only have one culture. No such thing as one african ritual system .