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Week 5 Response
by ahs •
It is surprising to me that the issue of women mountaineering is even an issue worth debating- in terms of how appropriate it is for them to do so. The article, “Wanting the Children and Wanting K2” was the most surprising to me. i suppose that Alison Hargreaves’ death was in 1995, and the cultural…
Reading Response, Week 4
Week 4
by ahs •
The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, Orientalism, and Anglo-Tibetan Relations in the 1920s gave a typical account of how Europeans, the West in general, and the British use Orientalism, consciously and unconsciously, to the detriment of Asian cultures. One of the parts I found most interesting about this story is the backdrop on which it…
Reading Response, Week 3
Week 3
by ahs •
From the beginning of Macfarlane’s novel I knew it was going to be a fast read because of the way he was able to describe the thrill and obsession of mountaineering in a seemingly colloquial yet elegant way. The beginning of the first chapter was enough to do it. The title “Possession” already rang in…