ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Anthropology, Jargon, Mirror Stage
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Linguistic and socio-cultural anthropology lecture 3: constructing reality. Discuss society, culture and language as universal human traits with particular manifestations. Understand social construction: deconstruct society and culture (deconstruct means reverse construction) Imagination: how language constructs/builds how we see the world. Anthropologists were part of the bureaucracy of the colonial period when slaves were brought over (they helped explain non-western tendencies) Decolonialize means without reflection or thought we make judgement/stereotype. Construction by means of language, culture and society. Construction: formed by people in society; nurture not nature. A) what is verifiable (can be verified through experience); B) the world as it makes sense to us. Most reality does not come across to us without the filter of signs and language; it is socially constructed. For instance, language and culture are socially constructed (cant just make up your own): it may not always be the same as what really exists.
