ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Linguistic Relativity, The Color Spectrum, Benjamin Lee Whorf

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

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Ant100- lecture 14: real and not real, reality as a construct reality and the real, (cid:862)whorf hypothesis(cid:863): how diff languages construct diff realities, self as a construct, la(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s stages of de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t the real, the i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)ary a(cid:374)d the sy(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) Yeti, (cid:271)ut it"s (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause a yeti is (cid:374)ot real. The importance of making up things: some signified are real and others (yeti?) are(cid:374)"t irony, lies, fantasy, plans, making up things is an act of signifying using signs. It"s a(cid:374) adapti(cid:448)e ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tage of ho(cid:373)o sapie(cid:374)s: together (cid:449)ith i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g (cid:272)ategories of u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g, signs reflect but also make our world. What do we mean by real: studied by philosopher, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, overlapping disciplines, anthropologists focus on small group constructs and interactive practice, today: focus on philosophers. John austin (cid:862)j. l. (cid:863) (1911-1960: how languages are practiced, studied wisdom. In ordinary language: reality is what is real. In social science/humanities jargon: reality is how we understand the real.