Chapter 7
Summary:
Malpais
Snake Dance Ceremony (ritual)
Dehumanisation
Brutality
Linda
John
Johns father
Capitalism/ Throw them away when they’ve got holes in them and buy
Consumerism new. The more stitches the less riches
Mending’s antisocial
Power/ It made it easier for me to condition him a little – Linda
Conditioning about John
Uniformity/ Cleanliness is next to fordliness and civilisation is
Castes/ sterilization
Lack of That’s because we don’t allow them to be like that. We
individuality preserve them from diseases. (referring to elderly people in
the Savage Reservation)
She had never seen anything so indecent in her life
(referring to women breastfeeding)
I often think one may have missed something in not having
had a mother
Nobody’s supposed to belong to more than one person – in
the Reservation
So they’re having children – all the time – like dogs. Its
revolting