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 # Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols #
+## Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols ##
+Ryan Schram
+ANTH 2654: Forms of Families
+September 2015
+Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/6
+## Lecture outline ##
+* 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
+## References ##
+Austin, John L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
+Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor.
+Danesi, Marcel. 2004. Messages, Signs, and Meanings: A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
+Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
+Richter, Duncan J. 2004. “Wittgenstein, Ludwig.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/#H6.
+Wardlow, Holly. 2006. Wayward Women: Sexuality And Agency in a New Guinea Society. University of California Press.
+## 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: