Thursday, April 7, 2011

Anthropology Lecture Notes

"Geography of imagination."-transformation in the savage and the study of the "other".
-Passing of the savage: light of great cultural problems moving away from focus of study, unanswerable to our own culture. The suffering subject replaces the savage.... ...suffering slot...
Waiting for Godot relationship...
Side comment::: "well wived"::::
-Rise of the NGO as a new humanitarianism movement focused on suffering savages.
Studying the suffering lead to releasing of pressure from the anthropology community because suffering was universal and not attributed to solely to savages or the "others".
:::Traumatic suffering beyond culture? -accounts of trauma felt inside our bodies as we recall specific moments..
"Growing interest in empathy.." a new form of humanitarianism..
Side comment:::"When anthropology happens in general.."::: ....peculiar line...