POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maya Deren, Premarital Sex

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 243
• Professor: Mark Brawley

Document Summary

Maya deren: russian jew born who emigrated to new york a. b. She was following the music to show the dancing. Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange through anthropology. The philologist: the historical development of language i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. The mentality of native was so primitive that they would pronounce words in different sounds. Boas found this to be untrue, and explained the phenomenon of alternating sounds in ways that linked observer: the philologists regularly heard different sounds based on the language they speak; there is a regularity. Paying attention to context: the philologists didn t pay attention to grammar, phonetic system of the languages; they applied their own context, patterns of sounds. Boas showed that we can learn something important of the observers" comprehension of sounds based on their context: how the sounds we are familiar with let us to comprehend the sounds in the world.