ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Secularism, Peyote, Metonymy
14 Jan 2016
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An encompassing picture of reality created by members of a society. As a society we gain culture by sharing ideas with peoples. Show up many times so that they can be patterned. Can be modified, or changed, through time and environment. Symbolic symbols that stand for something else. A form of thought and language that asserts a meaningful link between two expressions from different semantic domains. Convey a deeper meaning into what someone is saying. You all need to understand the cultural context of it though if you don"t understand the role or context of what is being said, the bigger picture will be missed. Idioms may not resonate with the person you"re talking to because they might not have the cultural context to make sense of it. The culturally defined relationships of the parts of a semantic domain to the domain as a whole and of the whole to its parts. Represent something other than what they are o.
