my anthro notes, food for thought.

there is no such thing as nature.
we create nature and we create culture.
those things are there but are not those things until we put a name to them.


the production is a cultural process


there would be no such thing as science or culture without language. all anyone has a relationship between our language and the world it is describing at the end of the day.




signifier (sign)
and
signified(what the sign is claiming to represent)


B-L-U-E
the first shape signifies the sound "buh" and strung together we say blue. which signifies the spoken word blue. which signifies the concept of color, and the color we know as blue.

symbolically, even the color can be a signifier for another thing. such as the ocean, the sky, feeling sad.

because we as people collectively agree that this is what they all mean. ----language



anyyyway,



EMILY martin is an anthropologist. she studies people in the field of immunology and looks at them as a culture.
field: university classrooms, medical textbooks

cells are a metaphor. if you have t cells and bacterial cells and immune cells they all look the same. the only way to tell them apart is by their action. so we as people imagine that they have "signals". but they don't. we create that in our minds to make more sense out of what is happening


byeeeeee this class says everything you know is relative. everything