
Inventing Sexuality | Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon
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The Origins of the Uekundst
There is two different kind of generations of anthropology. And I'm going to talk about this German American lineage because that's where Mead fits in. So someone like Magnus Hirschfeld, the kind of Weimar era and Wilhelm Einpre-Weimar Pre-Fertweld War era German gay rights activist, is relying on late 19th century German anthropology which is explicitly stageist. It posits a stages of human development, a kind of conveyor belt towards civilization. Also posits that there are some people who are, as it terms, naturfeldk, nature people,. People who have no history, they have no culture, and they are representatives therefore of the universal
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