ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Meta-Communication

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Hugode Burgo

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Characteristic of openness - act out or portray - behavioral openness. Play might help individuals survive by peaking motor skills. Good example of how play operates within its culture. The way people joke and when it is acceptable. In play there are two kinds of metacommunication: framing: an understood boundary that marks certain behaviors as play or as ordinary life. Cognitive boundary that marks certain behaviors as play or as ordinary life: reflexivity: critically thinking about the way one thinks; reflecting on one"s own experiences. The process of thinking about the social and cultural dimensions of the world in which we find ourselves. Children"s play can be imitation of the real world. Cultures may think of play as pretend or make believe or it can be recognized as a form of political resistance. Play creates the awareness of alternatives and demonstrates the openness in human experience.