ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Houseplant, Perception, Hubris

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6 Feb 2013
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Lecture 5 surely nature is natural part 2. Picture of two elephants, we see elephants. Elephants are social (picture shows elephants rubbing trunks together) Implies emotional communication/connection: they have human emotions, that implies they aren"t all that different from humans, begs questions regarding the sacrifice of some elephants for the greater good of all elephants. Elephants can be pests: destroy crops, trample people, can transmit diseases to humans via other animals, rips up fences and water holes, something of an annoyance to humans. Struggles over nature and resources are struggles over meaning. Competing scientific theories as to how the world works. E. g. conservation ideas: one big area vs. a bunch of dispersed small ones. Symbolically; everything is symbolic and up for interpretation. Culturally, historically, politically: which meanings dominate, cultural relativist versus universalist. Degradation narrative: human activity is resulting in the savanna extending into areas that were once forested, narrative extends from colonial to the present.

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