ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthropological Linguistics, Academy Awards, Semiotics
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Race is given by society, although it is presented as natural . Race is not natural: it is related to nature (material reality), but not given immediately by nature (related to culture and society), is not intrinsic to nature. Social construction works with natural material, but is not itself . Wrongs caused by social construction may entail historical rights. Should catholics in toronto have the right to pay for catholic rather than secular schools? (why not protestants, jews, muslims?) (catholics in toronto does not have to pay for tax for public school) Unravel the social and historical constructedness of invented (but real) categories like race, national identity, or gender. This work must precede any advice anthropologists can give on what is right or. How signs reflect but also make our world. Not only reflect, but also create our reality. Signs: image, written word, smell, sound, the spoken word, written word + object it"s on (classical sign)
