ANT100Y1 Final: Study Notes on Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology
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Abstract concepts (time & love) are shaped by the language we speak and lead to culture. That each language creates a different way of looking at the world. Problem: assumes that language and thought and culture can be separated. Suggested solution: language, manifested as a living activity, happens in conjunction with, inseparably from, specific cultural/social contexts. Ex b) the polynesian word (and concept) mana. Although attraction and desire for another person are given in many ways by nature, the way we experience love and it"s relation to social life are given by nurture and history. -ancient greeks: eros and agape for love but both mean different family things. - bourgeois love": the foundation of marriage and nuclear unit, appears with the capitalist means of production -- appeared in mid 15th century based on mobile wage labor which reduced the unit of reproduction to nuclear family.
