ANT 100 Lecture 6: ANT100 Lecture 6

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 100
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

There is no single definition of culture, its vague and squishy. Example: general classroom behaviour (hierarchy), orient ourselves physically, not just a system of signs, the way the space works, etc, all these ideas are part of a larger regime of knowledge within a school context. Pier(cid:272)e"s triad: he added the interpretant, according to pierce, there are three types of signs, icon. The representamen (sign vehicle) resembles the object (referent: index. The representamen (sign vehicle) is physically or casually connected to the object (referent: symbol. Social indexicality: othe(cid:396) sig(cid:374)s poi(cid:374)t to out (cid:862)i(cid:374)de(cid:454)(cid:863) aspe(cid:272)ts of a (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e o(cid:396) su(cid:271)(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e: pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455), politi(cid:272)s, philosophies, general orientations of the entity using a particular signs or collection of signs. Culture is not a thing within itself but a set of practices; meaningful within a specific space and time* A(cid:374)al(cid:455)ze ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) (cid:862)cultu(cid:396)e(cid:863: practices, discourses, material expressions: