For Essay 2, you will select one ethnic group of people from Jimmy Nelson’s project “Before They Pass Away” from this webpage:
– Himba
– Huaorani
– Huli, Asaro, and Kalam
– Mursi
– Rabari
– Samburu
– Vanuatu
– Dassanech Banna, Caro, and Hamar
– Dani, Yali, and Korowai
You will analyze your chosen body of work through the lens of Linda Nochlin’s orientalist framework. To do this well, it is crucial that you are fully conversant with the framework and have a clear idea about your stance. You must also identify the fundamental ethical issue that the work raises and try to construct a compelling motive in which to present this issue.
Drawing on your lens text, you will develop a nuanced argument about your selected body of work. To support your analysis, you may also use related secondary sources that emerge from your independent research. These sources should be employed in a strictly supplementary role. As you write and think about your essay, it is important that you do not lose sight of the body of photographic work you are analyzing.
make sure your readers have a clear sense of where you stand. You should organize your essay under a strong thesis—clear, direct, arguable, sufficiently narrow in scope, and grounded in the selected body of work.
Foryour essay, you are required to write at least 1700-2000 words. This should include your introduction and two body paragraphs.
Due: Sunday, April 23th (no later than midnight)
Thesis: Your essay needs a clearly and explicitly stated thesis. Without one, you do not have an argumentative essay. Further, your thesis needs to be clear, focused, arguable, and firmly grounded in the text. You also need to ensure that your thesis is all governing, i.e that everything in your essay (all your key points, framing, and body) must be in support of your thesis statement. If your thesis does not align with the body of your essay, you need to either remove the points in your body that don’t support your thesis or re-tweak your thesis. This area requires major attention.
Framing: Your initial framing moves are crucial for guiding the reader to the controversy and to your thesis. You are still using a funnel approach that you must abandon immediately. Instead, you need to begin by identifying the time and context of the controversy and then provide a good selection of quotes commenting on the said controversy. Moreover, you need to present those voices to your reader as if they were having a real conversation.
you need to read the text much more closely and engage with it directly.
Citations: You need to cite much more and show your reader evidence of textual engagement. For the next essay, make sure you know the primary texts inside out.
the tribe i chose is the samburu tribe
this is how the introduction should be structured
1.context – set the scene – be specific
2.adress the contraversy
3. the conversation ” They say” include 5 quotations make sure they are relevant to what you are saying 3 pros and 2 cons/ against
4.the consession “i say”
5. thesis
1.context – set the scene – be specific ( what nelson is effectively trying to accomplish in his photographs is to …)
2.adress the contraversy ( he is not in fairness … neither is he….)
3. the conversation ” They say” include 5 quotations make sure they are relevant to what you are saying 3 pros and 2 cons/ against
4.the consession “i say” (it is true that….)
5. thesis ( however a fundamental problem in nelsons portrayal of the samburu tribe is ….)1.context – set the sce
you should use words like “Pedestal” and quote that because nelson says that a lot
other words you should include areyou should use words like “Pedestal” and quote that because nelson says that a lot “white mans fantasy” “pre colonialism” ” “absence of modernity” “absence of time””