Otherness Case
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Otherness is the “other” people outside of ourselves that we go out to discover that is different and distant from the anthropologists own native history. More so this term is the difference between the American/ the social norms that we are accustomed to, that we believe is the dominant and “correct” culture. Other is just another term to stereotype and discriminate against another group that doesnt uphold to our standards and social constructs.
Visual culture is the understanding that culture established through visible symbols inserted in gestures ceremonies rituals and artifacts found in
A stereotype is*
Visual culture focuses on the cultural meaning of a work of art rather than on aesthetic (visual, artistic) value.
Visual culture also goes beyond painting and drawing but also in film (visual medium) internet
Visual culture not just art history but also anthro socio communications
Symbolic system
Visual Literacy-shared culture assumptions
The collective “storage bank” (fit it into something we already know) of visual references
Raising of the flag on Iwo Jima and Sept 11
Viewer manipulation (judging authenticity and truth) is it real or not?
Ignorance fear danger is the reason for these monstrous creatures
Stereotypes
An ordering process for how an individual makes sense of the wider world (classification or typology
Although ordering is constructed and therefore not “real” it is generally perceived as real by those who create the stereotype.
Stereotypes are grounded in social power
Short cut/ hand: stereotypes condense complex info into a simple and easily- grasped representation
Stereotypes are effective in so far as they evoke consensus (who is in and who is out)
“Truth And Stereotype”