ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Performativity, Metonymy, Synecdoche
28 Nov 2012
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Makes the familiar strange-houses are worthy of so much. This chapter-is the most representative of ethnography before 1980. By reading this you can"t tell when it happened. Now they need to speak in plain language. Offers a wedding ceremony-ultimate performative utterance-the word becomes the action. If it wasn"t a priest than it doesn"t happen-it"s not in the words but the mode of their delivery. Rhetoric-was once a discipline in itself-educated people learn this to pull the wool over people"s eyes. The suspect qualities of rhetoric-what you mean is not what you say. An icon signifies something by resemblance-likeness is purely conventional. Metonym-when we call a business man a suit-associated with that. Synecdoche-he is all heart-not really the organ but means kind-it is actually a part of the whole. The lord has to feed all the hungry mouths-synecdoche. Metonym-when you connect seagulls to oceans you aren"t affecting them-must hold a sense of distinction between these differences.
