Any topic (writer’s choice)
asked to respond to a set of short answer questions that will cover course material from Week 1 (What is Anthropology?) to Week 6 (Sex & Gender)
October 28, 2020Journal 7-Poetry Response
October 28, 20201.Explain the quote below (3-4 sentences).
The world is structured with a particular notion of unmarked normativity”
( from The Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition, Ato Quayson, p. 204)
2. Siebers makes a connection between aesthetics and the body with the built environment. He refers to this as aesthetic symbolism. What does he mean by that? (3-4 sentences)
3. Elliss article discusses the stigma associated with people with dwarfism. Why do you think some non disabled people think it is okay to take pictures of people with dwarfism without their permission? How does this picture taking create a sense of Othering? (3-4 sentences).
