ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conceptual Metaphor, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Protestant Work Ethic
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Lecture 3 (worldviews and the cultural construction o. Who care for roosters, do the fighting, spectate, etc. Women are selling and raising food for the roosters. Compare to the idea of hockey as a "text" of canadian culture. Think of the don cherry"s firing last fall . Suggests narrative of hockey in canada is not singular. Narrative of what it means to be canadian is not the same as it used to be. An encompassing picture of reality based on a set of shared assumptions of how the world works. One of the ways we learn out culture. Culture: set of shared beliefs within a group. Multiple worldviews may coexist in a single culture, or a single worldview may dominate. Possible that we know or do not know who our ancestors are. Has a grandmother who dies but comes back as a ghost. For pacific islanders, your ancestors never fully die.
