ANTH245 2007-10-08
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Intro
Business
- November 5th meeting will be cancelled
- See Blackboard for the updated syllabus
Recap
Segue
Themes
Knowledge
Connection to Representation
- Materiality
- Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ...
Reconstitution of Knowledge
Exteriorization of Knowledge
Commodification of Knowledge
Communicational Transparency
- See Shannon's model
- "Information wants to be free"
- Social problems reducible to "noise"
- Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon
- Government gets in the way
Political Economy
Globalization
Investment
Piracy
Legitimacy
Resistance
Language Games
- Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action
Discourse and Narrative
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
