ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jargon, Mental Disorder, Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Scl anthropology lecture #3: constructing reality through signs and especially. How is the world constructed through culture, and more specifically through goals of the socio-cultural-linguistic anthropology lectures: Discuss society, culture, and language as universal human traits with particular manifestations. Most of reality doesn"t come across to us without the filter of signs and language: that means you can"t make up your own language or culture. Construction: formed by people in society, nurture not nature. Reality: a) what is verifiable or b) the world as it makes sense to us. Our sense of reality has to do with something appearing in front of us and seeming. (talk about dogs) reality as a construction jargon vs. ordinary language: colour is a social construct. Sioux, and many other languages would be something like a mental disorder language constructs reality the objective world. Such understandings have bearing on our reality.
