ANTHROP 3W03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meta-Communication, Emic And Etic, Franz Boas
27 Sep 2017
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Can"t differentiate between ot and material culture. These are all examples of songs, jokes, rhymes. Article acts for us as a sort of guide. See the rituals involved, clouded by the normalness so you don"t see what"s unique. Cat poison: wasp gathering of rich people and professors . Labour story: student of guy who wrote the article (usa) Doesn"t talk about most of the legends except for a few things. Labour story: lighten severity of certain situations. Burping rhyme: adding comedy to what is already funny, lightening the gross situation and. Cat poison: ironic humour and entertaining people, didactic. Can gain inferences about a specific time in life. Must be able to discern why it is told a certain way. Never 100% know the thoughts and life of the people but if you do enough historical work you can make enough guesses. What a person chooses to emphasise can lead to details of the personality of the teller.
