ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Mirror Stage, Jacques Lacan
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Goals of the social-cultural-linguistic anthropology lectures: discuss society, culture, and language as universal human traits with particular manifestations, understand social construction: deconstruct society and culture, decolonialize the imagination. Reality as a construction: construction - formed by people in society, nurture not nature, reality, what is veri able, the world as it makes sense to us signs and language. It may not always be the same as what really exists: the real: most of reality does not come across to us without the lter of. In ordinary language: reality is what is real. In social science/humanities jargon: reality is how we understand the real. For the most part, reality seems pretty real and we are well advised to live in it: but a lot f the real is not our reality: we do not understand it. Color in nature - no sharp boundaries between colors (on a spectrum)
