ANTHRO 147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grater, Paradigm Shift, Embeddedness
26 Oct 2014
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Cultural diversity of healing, meaning, metaphor: project = a particular healing modality - finding a site or a medical appointment. A model of ethnography of communication - speech and communication are cultural phenomena are similar of socio-cultural definition. How language and healing structures the way of of healing. Observing and participation within the settings: modalities - reflexology, art therapy, homeopathy, guided imagery, yoga, new age healing. [reiki, crystals, body works, chakra balancing], mediation, herbal medicine, acupuncture. The degree that language plays in some healing modalities may be more in constitutive or ancillary: constitutive, ancillary. Benjamin whorf (student of franz bowis): whorf claims that language exerts a force that may affect the way we behave habitually. Signs have a finite number of meanings, whereas symbols have an infinite number of associated meanings: to make visible, audible, and tangible beliefs, ideas, values, sentiments, and psychological dispositions that cannot be directly perceived (victor turner 1967; the.
