Decolonising identity

Image-representation Identity
1. Self-representation
2. Image-sovreignty
Images, stereotypes, Icons
1. How does an image become a stereotype?
2. What form of representation
3. Image becomes an icon- who benefits
3 Empires Approach
1. Establishes hierarchy- severs past from present
2. Culture levels
  1. High Civilization: maya, aztec, inca
Mapping representation
1. four cardinal points: apache, mapuche, maya, aymara
2. Number 13, cosmology, colours, seasons
3. Movable Center, colonial semiosis
  1. people make territorial representations
  2. Center- economic power
    1. Borders of kingdoms- nation states
  3. Colonial thought considered universal
    1. Stereotypes produced by reduction
      1. Indios concept- nudity, communal property, no law, cannibalism, sacrifice
4. Doctrine of Discovery
5. Americanity- Space, workers, states
Eu colonialism created labor system by ethnicity
1. Conquest; Colonial: French; Indepencence

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	Created by Kate Mc about 9 years ago