ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Relativity, Jargon, The Color Spectrum
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Connotation: (cid:498)reports about the yeti are fake-purported photos are too fuzzy to believe(cid:499) What is the signified: can be confusing/strange. Anthropology is about making the familiar strange: familiar is already strange. Convinced that language is related to reality. Some signified are real and others (yeti?) are not. Making up things is an act of signifying- using signs. Point: signs reflect but also make our world. Studied by philosophers, psychologists, political scientist, sociologists and anthropologists (overlapping disciplines) Anthropologists focus on small-group constructs and interactive practice. Focus on philosophers (these 2 are ordinary language philosophers) Just b/c its constructed does not mean its fake. Race is not fake- it(cid:495)s a human construction and functions in society (cid:523)as if it wasn(cid:495)t a human construction(cid:524) )maginary is also not fake (cid:523)we(cid:495)re not lying(cid:524: we have to deal with it, one statement is just good as the other, ex. Yet we can distinguish reality from irreality (truth from lies)
