ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beacon Press, Barbara Myerhoff, Religious Organization
10 Nov 2016
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Exchange systems in hunter-gather" or food collector" cultures. World view: an encompassing picture of reality created by members of a society. E. g. , religion, cosmology, ontology (nature of being ) Worldviews attempt to bring order, regularity, and predictability to one"s daily life and all aspects associated with it (robin horton p. 243) Metaphor: a form of thought and language that asserts a meaningful link between two expressions from different semantic domains. From lakoff and johnson (1980): time is money ; argument is war . Metaphorical subject: the first part of a metaphor, which indicates the domain of experience that needs to be clarified (lord) Metaphorical predicate: the second part of a metaphor, which suggests the familiar domain of experience that may clarify the metaphorical subject (shepherding) Key metaphors: metaphors that serve as the foundation of a world view. The white house is the heart of america . The women in the body: a cultural analysis of reproduction.
