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 # Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols #  # Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols # 
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 +## Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols ##
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 +Ryan Schram 
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 +ANTH 2654: Forms of Families
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 +3 September 2015
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 +Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/6
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 +## Lecture outline ##
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 +* The social construction of reality
 +  - Durkheim's idea: Collective representations
 +  - We see the world through symbols
 +  - Schneider: A culture's theories of conception are a symbolic representation of kinship
 +* Metaphors we live by
 +  - Lakoff and Johnson's concept of metaphor: The mapping of attributes from a source onto a target.
 +  - Argument is war
 +  - Health is up/Sickness is down
 +  - Love is a journey
 +  - Huli marriage is bridewealth
 +  - Family is...?
 +* How to do things with words
 +  - Carsten argues that kinship is created through symbolic action
 +  - Semantic and pragmatic values
 +  - J. L. Austin: constative and performative
 +  - J. L. Austin: locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary
 +  - Shifters
 +  - Kinship as performance 
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 +## References ##
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 +Austin, John L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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 +Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor.
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 +Danesi, Marcel. 2004. Messages, Signs, and Meanings: A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
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 +Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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 +Richter, Duncan J. 2004. “Wittgenstein, Ludwig.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/#H6.
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 +Wardlow, Holly. 2006. Wayward Women: Sexuality And Agency in a New Guinea Society. University of California Press.
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 +## See also ##
  
 In Weeks 5 and 6, the lectures introduce basic ideas of semiotics and symbolic anthropology. Here's some articles which sketch some of the ideas in more detail:  In Weeks 5 and 6, the lectures introduce basic ideas of semiotics and symbolic anthropology. Here's some articles which sketch some of the ideas in more detail: 
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