ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Semiotics, Bipedalism
10 Mar 2016
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Oedipus, king of thebes, wanted to kill his father to marry his mother. While traveling, he meets a sphinx that asks him a riddle: Crawls as a baby, walks as an adult and uses a cane as an old man. Questioning the answer is a way of thinking in pictures. The way in which we are all animals, the product of biology. Our distinct humanity we are bipedal, but only we have language, culture and society; the symbolic. Understanding this relationship between us and other beings. Where does the person stop and the world begin (cane of a blind man / cane and hand, cane and sidewalk, somewhere along the cane). Mediation one thing stands for the relationship between 2 different things. It tells us that we are mortal, that we have our limits. The i(cid:373)age of (cid:1007) tells us (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:373)ore (cid:373)ediati(cid:374)g (cid:271)etwee(cid:374) (cid:1008) (cid:894)(cid:374)ature(cid:895) a(cid:374)d (cid:1006) (cid:894)(cid:272)ulture)
