ANTH 1120 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Oct 27.docx
12 Dec 2014
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Can be religious and non religious: we can think of metaphors, rituals, stories music and myths as symbolic actions, activities that dramatically depict the world views shared by a specific group of people. When we go to our societies and places, we see that they"re more primitive than ours (ethnocentric assumption) Comparing something without using like or as . A figure of speech/linguistic expression that stands for something else. Economic exchange our society talks about time refers to time is money. Our everyday language we communicate with metaphors: in order for metaphors to make sense, we all have to share a cultural assumption. Cree our hunting land is like our garden. used this metaphor to help: they"re assuming that they would understand what a garden means better communicate their concerns. Kwak"wak uses eating as a key metaphor in their society helps them make sense of these abstract concepts. Starting to see a coherent system and world view with these metaphors.
