Choose one of the following prompts:
- Using Ian López’s understanding of “the social constructionist of race,” how might you challenge Georges Cuvier’s “scientific and essentialist findings” concerning Sarah Baartman’s body? Write up a “response” to Cuvier in any format/genre.
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Using at least one other reading as support, how does Horace Miner’s “The Body Rituals of the Nacirema” (1956) illustrate the ethnocentric ways that cultures can be misrepresented and the importance of understanding the cultural context behind the actions of people?
Happy Writing!
Length: 500 words with 2 in-text citations as support.
Due Mon. @ 6:00PM.
FYI: Visit Neil B. Thompson's "The Mysterious Fall of the Nacirema" (1972), if interested in ethnography & anthropology.
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