ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Noam Chomsky, Emic And Etic, Interjection
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Our world and their world: absolute values and cultural relativism, universal and particular structures in language and culture, moral issues in anthropological work. Many of us would think that infanticide is worse than abortion, whereas. Is it okay to leave the elderly to die? some would think of both as equally morally wrong. If we believe there are human rights, then we believe in universal values; we have the un. Declaration of human rights, but not everybody agrees on what a human right is. It"s also hard to draw the line between cultural relativism and moral relativism. Levi strauss and structural anthropology: claude l vi-strauss (1908-2009) culture has much the same structure as language (which is an old idea from the 60s, levi strauss (1829-1902) i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ted jea(cid:374)s; do(cid:374)"t get the(cid:373) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused. Universal levels of language: texts; studied in discourse analysis, e. g. (cid:449)e(cid:271)site, spee(cid:272)h, le(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e, (cid:271)ook, joke, so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e shouti(cid:374)g (cid:862)fi(cid:396)e! (cid:863)
