Data Analysis Strategies

Martin the Tiger: a semiotic analysis

  • text also constitutes an apprenticing into a rational scientific practice: a reproduction of the products of zoology via eugenics

  • here, authorial authority over content is asserted and we have an exchange text: principles of evaluation are retained by the authorial voice

  • neither discourse—European sentimentality nor European science—can motivate the other

    • but they are woven together in a simple racist text

NB tigers are dangerous, wild animals, which attack and kill human beings, which is why local people want to shoot them rather than produce more of them.

NB European scientists adopt much the same attitude towards threats to Europeans such as the avian flu viri

from: Martin3