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- Tristes Tropiques, 2
- November 5, 2002
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- L-S’s experiences as refugee (23-36): the anthropologist as object of
“race science”
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- Narrating travel from a position of cultural, racial or technological
security (superiority)
- Racism: the attempt to verify this theory through practice
- What happens when the traveler casts off the certitudes of the secure
position?
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- Kristallnacht, 1933
- Jewish refugees refused by most countries
- Nazi Germany’s shift from deportation to extermination
- Partition of India, 1947 (p. 127)
- … and other historical actings-out of the theory of irreducible
difference. See p. 149: subordination “solves” the problem of
coexistence
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- To classify and categorize permanent and stable features of the “kinds”
or “breeds” of man?
- To inventory “cultures”: distinct and irreducible “worlds” of
experience? (cf. Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, 1937)
- Or to recover distal events and conditions responsible for the
categories?
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- Geology
- Marx
- Freud
- And one lesson: the apparent phenomena are meaningful only in the
context of larger, unrepresented phenomena
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- Emphasizing:
- Processes
- Underlying causes
- Problem solving on the basis of materials that are given and pre-formed
(e.g. fans, p. 110)
- “A finite world”: anthropology belongs to ecology
- Total history of humanity
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