ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ethnic Group, Kula Ring, Exile Express
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Chapter 5 - the cultural construction of identity. Whenever we interact with another person, the interaction must be based on some idea of who the other is. Some idea of who we are: a conception of the relationship that exists between us. Each tries to place the other in some identity at some spot on the social landscape. Our social identities are constructed in large part by others, who by their behavior toward us, confirm that we occupy the spot on the landscape we claim to occupy: nobody is anybody except in relation to somebody. Question 5. 1: how is identity, and ones sense of self, learned. Imagine the inside of a skin tent, or a snowhouse, or a government-regulation low rental prefab. In this a small inuit girl wakes in the night. Given the sounds of love, and know that she is safe. Her grandmother is alive again in the baby, and she must be treated with respect.
