http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2003/08/13/ignorance/ Better than yelling at the T.V. Wed, 05 May 2010 18:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2003/08/13/ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1283#comment-264 <!--%kramer-pre%-->less threatened by narratives suggesting alternative social structures would have had considerably less trouble understanding Bohannon’s retelling of Hamlet. This suspicion comes out of my own understanding of ideology as what Zizek calls the “active refusal to know.” According to such an interpretation of Bohannon’s article, there is nothing specific about Tiv society which prevents them from understanding Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but her story telling is frustrated by the<!--%kramer-post%--> less threatened by narratives suggesting alternative social structures would have had considerably less trouble understanding Bohannon’s retelling of Hamlet. This suspicion comes out of my own understanding of ideology as what Zizek calls the “active refusal to know.” According to such an interpretation of Bohannon’s article, there is nothing specific about Tiv society which prevents them from understanding Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but her story telling is frustrated by the

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