ANTH 1001 : Anthro Nov 12.docx
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Interpretation is the difference between two cultures (tamil western: sign has two roles, sign is part of the sign and the sign itself, assuming there are two webs of signification, man is trapped in webs of signification, no one says a house is a person, daniels finds this the best way to describe the way a house is perceived in tamil culture, part of the ethnographers responsibility is to make it clear as possible of how he knows, according to daniel, pierce is western, before you can learn any words, the way you"re going to learn is through words. I think, therefore i am it is because of this difference that daniel can derive: iconicity reigns in tamil, signs reign in western, without pierces sign theory, he would not have been able to see or know the regnancy of coated substances, story of the pilgrimage: coated substances are only knowable through firstness/secondness.