ANTHRO 169B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Political Correctness, Oceanic Feeling, Ethnography
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Idea that ethnographies as works of fiction and/or art. From a writing lesson, tristes tropiques, by l vi-strauss: by including/excluding, interpreting, adding, changing, analyzing, ethnographies become works of fictions/art. They do have an effect on people by telling the. Idea of libido: better translated as love or desire (not sexual desire only). Objects, peoples do not appear to us only through the lens of our own desires. Idea that being with god is having this oceanic feeling or being connected to everything, one being at center of the world - @womb. Once baby is out there is the first disconnection with the mother, baby cries now there is a need to regain these connections and we do this through exchanges writing serves as one, religion . For sure i will be settling and learning how to deal with validation in relation to the idea of being woke that has not been letting me ground since i moved to berkeley.