ANTHR310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Talal Asad, Edward Said, Ethnography
27 Sep 2016
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Recognizing that people with different backgrounds have different desires/goals: not assuming less privileged women (etc. ) can"t speak for themselves, working alongside, not on behalf of women/oppressed groups. Seeing struggles are interconnected but no the same different groups can work together even if they don"t have the same personal goals. Orientalism: a disciple that arose in the late 18th century europe to study middle eastern languages/history. Today, we do not use this term because it others the people that it refers to. Talal asad 1973) showed how anthropology emerged through contact between the west and its colonized other, and this encounter continues to define how anthropologists work and write. Clifford and marcus 1984) critiqued how anthropologists orientalised their subjects, making them into passive objects of study: excuse me gentlemen, where are the women? . Writing against culture (lila abu-lughod 1991) critiqued the absence of women and gender from writing culture, also critiqued the notion of culture itself as hierarchical, separating, essentializing.
