ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Political Anthropology, Postcolonialism, Stop Sign
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Me and the other : the possibilities and pitfalls of social/cultural anthropology: course logistics, class discussion: meaning, what is sociocultural anthropology, anthropological methods. Readings on blackboard, tutorial response info will be up tomorrow, Robbins preface + ch1 + eating christmas in the kalahari + inner city poverty . Understand core concepts, case studies in texts can help with this but they won"t necessarily be referred to or inquired about specifically. Maybe it is supposed to be red. Commonly agreed that drivers stop and not other members of society such as pedestrians. The implied rule of the symbol is to stop but it is not necessarily followed. In south africa car jacking was common and thus it was not common to drive through stoplights. Becomes excuse for other motives, like getting home quicker. Things that are agreed upon by society might have more than one meaning, not everyone will stop at a stop light.
