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This 4 page paper considers the way in which an article concerning the recovery of a an African child’s torso from the River Thames embody the concept of otherness resulting from ethnocentrism and the way that the commercial interests of the media frame the way events are reported. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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and attitudes that it reflects as being dominant in the background of the author and the society on which they are writing. When examining this from an anthropological approach it
may be argued that the two clear theme that are seen throughout the paper are the concepts of otherness through the presence of ethnocentrism, the later of which facilitates the
former and the commercial interests of the media to attract an audience. The concept of otherness may be used to examine the events and the way that article
is written. Otherness is a noun used to describe that which is different; it is other than the norm, possibly separate, but unlike possibly being distinctive because of its otherness.
It may also be that which has not been experienced or is alien (Wilson, 2004, p54). Pickering has argued that where there is a translation of differences into otherness there
may be the avoidance of facing differences within ones own culture, in this case the presence of a multicultural society and avoiding and interaction, and Tester (2001, p75) that separation
and lack of identification with the scenario will lead to a lower level of compassion. There is little doubt that with the approached adopted in the investigation and in
the article that there is a separation of the events into a cultural context, placing them as not only rare and allowing the audience, as well as the investigators to
separate this from their own cultural values, with the event being a crime this would then allow the otherness to be seen as not only different, but also demonised or
seen as inferior. The likeness in the article, where there is the emphasis about this type of killing being unusual is then likened to another phenomenon that may also be
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