ANTHROP 3PD3 Final: 3PD3 exam
8 Jan 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Orientalism can be defined as a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes or distorts differences between european and non-european societies/individuals. Edward said: pursuit of truth (208) hall. After death, her skeleton and painted body cast were stationed alongside each other, with her bones serving as an illusion of objectivity while her mold communicated her differences in body shape, skin colour, and primitiveness (qureshi, 2004, p. 245). Looked at both men and women but had extreme interest in the women: trying to get women naked say they are coy but compliant in their invasion. For the reader it is hard to see them as anything but distasteful. By 1830s it had shifted from looking at the whole body to looking at the brain and making inferences between intelligence and ethnicity. Myth model: power dynamic, prototype for constructing realities or truthes obeseykere.
