HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Lok, Voyeurism, Olaudah Equiano
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Ethnography way that europeans explain african people. Voyeurism is the process of gaining pleasure from watching others sexually. The way that europeans try to describe africans is often erotic. John lok wants to place africans in a hierarchy. Enforces racial hierarchies while maintaining gender hierarchies. Proves africans are beastly by saying women don"t get married and have sex outside of married, animalistic. To europeans, government and domesticated animals are signs of proper civilization. Lack of wives and sex with multiple women make them uncivilized. Belief that african women had easy childbirth. Animalistic, they don"t need a bed, nurses or health. Eve was given pain during childbirth by god, so if you do not have pain in childbirth, you are not christian and you did not descend from adam and eve. Use women"s bodies as a vehicle of racecraft. Defining difference through women"s bodies, through sexuality and reproduction. Cannot kill slaves, lest you lose your investment.
