locating culture – the ethnographic encounter

the colonial encounter - after 1492

ethnographic field work

constituting experiences in ‘classic’ ethnography

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

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"… in an ambiguous relationship..."

this …

… as much as this

the current ethnographic crisis

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Lévi-Strauss’s interest in corporeality

located bodies nine
the primitive body

modernity and progress

modernism’s
poetics

Gauguin’s tropics
of exoticism
and paradise lost/found

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Henry Moore

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Picasso

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located bodies six
the primitive body

located in a time-space, a chronotope of
travel/displacement, otherness (with respect to the imperialist nation state of the nineteenth century and since), ambiguous ethical relationships, ambiguous cultural relationships

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