ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Maisin Language, Indian Act, Zande People
5 Apr 2016
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Determined that all department store are from roughly the same social class: the lower middle class. Tests theory by going into stores and repeatedly asking where the fourth loor is and recording the way the workers pronounce fourth loor in two ways to connect them to class. Finds that there is a hyper-correcion in the macy"s careful response to idenify with a higher class. Tells the story of how the meat mother controls game and the migraion of caribous-if people have been bad, the meat mother will keep the migraing caribou for a year or two. You must respect the animals to keep the meat mother in good faith. Themes of the meat mother story: intelligence of animals, agency of moose. Tahltan huning video clip: in the clip recorded by dr. mcilwraith, four short stories are told in casual conversaion about moose that are shot only to get back up again and run of.
