SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Worldbuilding, Scientific Racism, Saartjie Baartman
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Soci 100 lecture 8 - colonization & power. The social process of discovery involves trying to persuade others that you have uncovered something. If stopped and asked to draw a map to totem park, different people would draw radically different maps, drawing on a variety of expertise (where to go first, which landmarks to draw, etc. ) North is at the top (why is it not flipped?) You can potentially have so many different world maps. In the case of columbus, he anticipated that the sailing distance to india was relatively short, so he sailed for a reasonable distance, encountered some islands, and called them india - or, the orient. This is why the place is now called west indies. This also led to the idea that in america we should celebrate all of columbus" achievements. Illustrates the sense that drawing something lends it factual accuracy, objectivity, scientific detachment (that"s why columbus was so misled) technology of.
