ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Orthopraxy, Fraternities And Sororities, Ethnocentrism
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Consider symbolic use and creaivity that extends beyond language. Explore the range of human creaivity in terms of: play, art, myth, ritual. Learn how power relaions in social seings can shape symbolic forms. Play is a generalized form of behavioral openness. Openness is the ability to think about, speak about, and do diferent things in the same way or the same thing in diferent ways. Play may be criical to the development of cogniive and motor skills. Metacommunicaion, or communicaion about communicaion, shit aciviies into or out of play. Metacommmunicaion consists of: framing: aciviies designated as play are transformed into play, relexivity: aciviies that permit consideraion of alternaive realiies and suggest that ordinary life can be understood in more than one way. Framing is a cogniive boundary between play and ordinary life . Play and non-play aciviies must be signaled clearly to paricipants.
