COMM 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sweet Grass Hills, Piegan Blackfeet, Rocky Mountain Front
21 Mar 2017
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Counter to communication as merely reflecting more basic processes of minds or social structures. Counter to the idea that electronic texts are more important (these are parasitic on face to face) Counter to the idea of conduit metaphor, from one mind to another (information only) Counter to idea of simple transmission of ideas. Counter to the idea that communication is the same everywhere. Example: on a bus, senegal (from b. Us: sorry to bother you but would you mind moving over so that i can sit down? . To the left is glacier national park. Blackfoot language (100 speakers in usa, mostly elders, some under 15, piegan. 15,000 enrolled members (a quarter of native blood) Tribal: blood, born of member, resident on res. Practical acting as real indians and others. A system of symbols, symbolic forms, norms, and their meanings. Story 1: name of the sign at glacier national park is maria. Was named by lewis and clark (lewis"s cousin)
