ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest Taboo, Exogamy, Social Fact
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Kinship: incest taboo (mauss: exogamic principle, sister exchange classification. Not interested in day to day information. Rather than dreams, decided to study language. Maybe the way people study language, could help him understand culture. Maybe he could study culture like grammar. Concept (signified) sound-image (signifier) the essence of language was meaning language was made of signs and unite concepts and sound images. How you imagine something when someone says something. Durkheim says: categories come out of society. Clade levi-strauss said: how can we form mental categories out of social categories unless we at least have the capacity ad tendency toward classification. We can see our brains and mind work through society and culture. No society without mind, and equally no mind without society. A plant or animal that is an emblem for a group. Metaphor for establishing opposition from another group.
