INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cougar, Acculturation, Banksy
13 Dec 2016
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The arnstein bible - german monk in the twelfth century. Depicts separation of european subjects, ethnic others. Sketches at the back of the book are more relevant- cosmos, world maps - the monstrous races of the world. Sciopod - one legged - hops away from you very quickly - uses the foot as an umbrella. There were fascination with the mysterious foreigners. The belmay - no head - their senses are in their chests - they have senses but not minds (we question with our reason) Misrepresentations of people few europeans had contact with. The pantoni - they can hide their faces with their ears while they sleep and can also use those ears. Otherness and othering to fly away when feared. Congress of freaks - these people be came part the fascination in the 1990s. Cultural representations condense fears into powerful symbols. Werewolf - using monsters to define culture (4000bc)
