ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Animal Language, Arbitrariness
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Animal language (nah, not important for this classbee, chimpsetc;)and the end of the chapter about turkish. Metaphors is valuable to learn; soil seed metaphor which is a gender metaphor. Everything we do, we grasp it symbolically, everything stands for something else. There"s no pure access to reality; from the time we are young, we comprehend the world through language. We can"t get through the pure element of language. The words and thoughts produce the world you live in. Metaphor"s example: dirt is the laundry"s poo said by the prof"s daughter; time is money time is a commodity, it has value; part of how we experience time. Categories: student, problem child, arab, oriental, asian, negro, black, woman, savages, Words exist and has meaning because there"s a difference with other words; birds mean. El derado, gold fever; terms from the video first contact nothing if there aren"t other animals. Words in every language is constantly undergoing change; language is where reality resides.
