ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Consumerism, Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge
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Culture: knowledge , knowledge knowing the other, gender, nature, categories: known , confirmed as true/integrated. Difference itself is beautiful, people do different things and make us humans and differences can also be awarded unequally. All of us in any society learn how to read symbols and cultural signs and written into other"s language and culture. Little children don"t know how to judge people based on clothing and signs, but they eventually learn; early moments where they learn to note people based on what they have. Does not feel that one is making it up, it feels quite natural and they may feel discovered and discovery. Discovery of the orient and the claims that the orients were there and that the europeans did not invent the term. Question how our body knowing and producing the world; one discovers for example, class, gender, race, person and then denies putting the categorization there but that it already exists by itself.
