Otherness Case

Otherness is the "other" people outside of ourselves that we go out to discover that is different and distant from the anthropologist's 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 doesn't 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"