INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Walter Ufer, Wild West Shows, Kakuma
4 Apr 2017
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One question on midterm from maloouf reading and one from denzin reading. Simple world maps, charts of the cosmos, diagrams of human mental endeavors & The sciopod a creature with only one leg, enables it to hop very quickly away from the. The panoti people with enormous ears used to cover themselves and when frightened by europeans they can use these ears to fly away. These drawings are a way to make sense of unfamiliar customs. A sense of wonder and curiosity about potential diversity. Exploring the limits of normal at a time when few europeans traveled outside europe. Misrepresentations & exaggerations of indigenous peoples who avoided contact with. Cultural representations condense fears into powerful symbols. Creatures represent punishment, transgression of bad behavior, human trapped in animal"s body. The people perceived as strange change over time. And the social function of monsters and othering remains constant.
