ANTB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stop Sign, Consumerism, Endangered Species
Document Summary
Picture of 2 elephants drinking water out of a river. Image of elephants not real (professor took a picture from botswana) Plays as an ecological actor (involved in environment system: belief that there were so many elephants that they had to be killed. Elephants are seen differently by different types of people; biologists, conservationist, poacher, tourist. What does this mean? (picture of stop sign) There is consensus the sign=stop (the symbol of the red octogaon signified this) The sociality of nature: contradictory messages: we like to believe we live in a contradictory paradox free lives, Antb01: lecture 2 we do live in contradictory worlds. Stop sign with rob ford"s name on it: the stop sign has meaning for activists. Stop sign in french (found in quebec: cultural identity in canada, there is political struggle as the sign means conflict between francophones and. Anglophones, since canada is mostly english speaking country.
