(handed out in class)
These are “big-picture” questions—no need to get bogged down in the details and fine-tuned in’s and out’s at this point.
Pandian—Anthropology
and the Western Tradition
1. what does Pandian tell us is the purpose
of his study?
2. what is the “Western tradition”?
3. what does Pandian mean by “authentic anthropology”?
4. what historic time period does Pandian focus
on, and why?
5. Pandian argues:” the most distinctive characteristic
of anthropology is the incorporation of the Other into ourselves.What does he mean by “inventing the human other”?
1. Why is Africa a place of darkness in the
novel? (no longer a “white patch for a boy to dream about”?)
2. What is the “civilizing mission” and the
“white man’s burden"?