Anthropology 2249F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intersectionality
27 Nov 2018
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Crossing: adopting ways of speaking and behaving from social groups they don"t belong to. Identity: language is an act of identity construction. Identities are shifting and multiple, repeated performances, con-constructed, regulated by others: shifting identities you are not the same everywhere you go, depends on context, goals etc. Identity is never only one attribute but a combination: gender, race, ethnicity, age, class etc. Identity includes: linguistic practices, behaviour, style, physical attributes. Identity construction involves enacting relations of domination and subordination: difference > superior or inferior. Power, domination, control all made real by participants during an interaction. Asymmetrical power relationships play out differently in (media) discourse. Language works together with other semiotic systems to construct identities.
