SOC 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tribal Art, Centrality, Marcel Mauss

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3410
• Professor: Mervyn Horgan

Document Summary

Whatever you do or say you can"t escape the life world" and you still exist physically & manage actions in life world. Consociated and contemporizes physically present but outside the life world we are experiencing. Clear, truthful, no trick, what you see is what you get. Social value, moral value on the idea that this is the real them". Derives from the social relations around it (with art this is more complicated) Looking for technical incompetence (something in them & have to get out) Seems to be part of a narrative/ no real/ absence understanding why they are doing this. Unmediated experience (i just have to do it, raw, unplanned) Absence of ties to elite markers/professionals etc. Value of the work derives from the biography of the creator. Centrality of the individual- ennobles the individual (deemed to be deeply personal art) Doing this elevates individual in some way. Creative urge, from the human core, emotionality, centrality of identity.