SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Book Of Leviticus, Liminality, Mary Douglas
26 Sep 2015
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Cultural representation of space: cultural; gives direction, maps used to be built for cars, represent the different cultural activities (sailing maps, aviation maps, etc. ) Theories: victor turner and liminality; going in and out of this state, ex. University (adulthood -> career), honeymoon (bf/gf -> married: mary douglas and matter out of place , leviticus, why this and not that. Sept. 25th, 2015: dirt, a concept of matter out of place , what are the cultural de nitions of categories? (ex. why we eat pigs but not dogs, homeless vs. homed ; why homed are not categorized. In the past, each town had own time: created problem b/w railroads and passengers, noon de ned as when sun is directly above person"s head, chaotic. International meeting in 1884: greenwich, england and then 24 time zones. We shape our buildings, therefore they shape us. sir winston churchill.
