Rethinking the "Western gaze"

 
Graeber / Wengrow 58: "[A] strong case can be made for the real origins of the 'Western gaze'--that rational, supposedly objective way of looking at strange and exotic cultures which came to characterize later European anthropology--lying not in travellers' accounts, but rather in European accounts of precisely these imaginary sceptical natives: gazing inwards, brows furrowed, at the exotic curiosities of Europe itself"
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #indigenous_peoples, #europe, #anthropology, #culture

> created June 13, 2024 at 12:31:41 PM


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