ANTH 1003W Chapter Notes - Chapter Online Reading: Semiosis, Entropy
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How forests think: toward and anthropology beyond the human (ch. Making sense of how we live inside these kinds of changing contexts that we both make and that make us has long been an important goal of anthropology. The relation that a word has to an object is primarily the result of the conventional relation it has acquired to other words and not just a function of the correlation between sign and object. Symbolic reference- the product of a special configuration of indexical relations. The mapping between two levels of indexical association involves not noticing the individual indexical associations by which signs can pick out objects in order. The symbolic is a prime example of a kind of dynamic that deacon calls emergent one in which particular configurations of constraints on possibility result in unprecedented properties at a higher level.
