ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 32Outline of Last LectureI. Kayapo, Out of the Forest (film) ct’dII. Predicaments of DevelopmentIII. Kayapo Film NotesIV. Cannibal ToursV. For MondayOutline of Current LectureI. Cannibal ToursII. Film NotesIII. “Modern” ProjectsCurrent Lecture4/13: Modern Projects I. Cannibal Toursa. Ethnography of “cultural tourists” b. Imperialist Nostalgia: A longing for same cultural forms that colonialism alters or eradicatesc. A Thesis-Like Statement:i. “Tourism has less to do with what other people are really like and more todo with how we imagine them to be…” (Edward Bruner)d. Cannibal tours are part of a larger system of colonially inspired organized toursi. These tours teach us more about tourist culture than about the cultures visitede. Enter Dennis O’Rourke: Cannibal Tours i. Visual Representations often de-contextualize from the larger social contextii. How can a camera be used to bring more of the context into view?II. Film Notesa. Indigenous people call the tourists the name that they have for their crocodile spirit, their dead returning – they don’t actually believe this but they say itb. Believe that the tourists come to find out if they are “still like their forefathers”c. A woman is angry because the tourists never buy their crafts – someone tells her to be polite and speak slowly – to “tell him straight” but “not be too angry”These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. Says they have no money and they need it, but the white people have all of itd. Talk about how the Europeans took all of their sacred objects and missionaries destroyed important spiritual symbolse. Don’t agree with any bargaining – think the price they ask should be the price they are paidf. They accept the villagers and are friendly to them, but are very confused by themtaking pictures everywhere – they have to buy pictures of their own things in the form of postcards. III. “Modern” Projectsa. Globalization – the fact of:i. Systematic corrected-nessii. Increased speed, scale, and volume of exchangeiii. Heightened experience of risk?b. Globalization – the policy of:i. International lending agenciesii. International peace keepingiii. International Criminal Courtc. Ethnography and Globalizationi. Mobility and new kinds of space1. Getting Ghost: Formation of identities and aspirations amidst cultural flows of racism, inequality, and de-industrializationa. Urban versus suburban existencei. Demographically, economically separated, constantly confounded and traversed – blurs spatialdivisions2. Connects to globalization forcesd. Banking and Development: Kivai. Kiva provides small loans with no interest to people in “developing” countries (often women) to spur economic empowerment – you go on the website, decide where you want to donate to, what kind of business, what kind of person – forms links between you as a lender and some person who is sort of an entrepreneurii. What does the globe look like from the standpoint of Kiva? 1. Who is a lender? Who is an entrepreneur?2. An expansion has come to the United States – first city was Detroit(shows how Detroit is part of the idea of global development, poverty, etc. – re-inscribes sense of West and Non-West)e. Development within “core” countries: i. Domestic violence and development1. The Polaroid Corporation and Cause Related Marketinga. Many people were missing work because of domestic violence – started the campaign to promote businessi. Started teaching the police – challenging the authority they give themselvesb. “A bottom line sense of doing good!”i. Photography and the hope of victimless prosecution – if they have photos they don’t have to call witnesses – the state prosecutes perpetrators, not the victimsii. Predicament: Victims testimony on behalf of the perpetrator because they aren’t allowed to drop charges themselvesiii. Predicament: Neoliberal politics and economic uncertainty…
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