ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Origin Myth
16 Dec 2016
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Every action, insofar as it is social, sends cultural messages: ex: a man making dinner for his family instead of a woman conveys a message to the family. Expressive culture: consists of those symbolic aspects of culture (or any society that conveys. Play messages: any activity can be play if the context frames it as play. Ex: play fight vs real fight: meta-messages. Symbolic cues that tell you how you should interpret an action or situation: hard to pin down because there are many differences between cultures. Transforms objects, roles, and actions of the non-play world: functions of play. Comments on and critiques the non-play world: sports (sub-genre) Physically exertive form of play that is aggressively competitive within constraints of culturally specific rules and definitions. Art: play with form that is subject to culturally specific aesthetic judgments, aesthetic judgments. Myth does not mean the opposite of true.
