HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Efficiency, Travel Literature, Nudity
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European perspectives on africans: sex, women, and the groundwork of enslavement. Ethnographic voyeurism: ethnographies are meant to be studies of understanding of them, of their culture, etc, voyeurism: getting sexual pleasures by watching others. Writer/reader is getting erotic pleasures by discussing about them: the way we eroticize and exoticize non-white bodies, national geographic: it is not a 1970s thing (400 later from 16th century it is still going on) Sex as sign of (non) civilization: john lok, 1554 voyage to guinea (john lok was great-great-great grandfather of john locke) Contract no matrimonie, neither have respect to chastitie. By saying this is bad different meaning of saying it is: leo africanus description of africa, 1550 bad keep talking about it. Land was found out, beeing as then inhabited by great numbers of people, which lived a brutish and savage life, without any king, Civilized people did not wear skin of animals. Blue: non-sexualized way of why the africans were uncivilized.
