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 We are all interconnected, and so we can’t not communicate. To say that people will always depend on each other is to say that we depend on languages and other shared resources for understanding each other. Systems of communication are the ways people adapt to their own incompleteness. Many contemporary issues in anthropology and the social sciences are in one way or another concerned with the ways people communicate and the social effects of communication. This perspective is crucial when one considers that powerful forces teach people to ignore ecological relationships. The study of language in use is the antidote to an ideology of liberal individualism and its ontological blindness. In this class, we learn the main tools anthropologists use to understand communicative action through ethnographic cases of meaning-making, and how struggles over what and how things mean make the worlds people live in.((This class was originally proposed by USYD anthropology department staff with a focus on political symbols, but this year will survey linguistic anthropology. In future years, it will have a more expansive title and description, and address varying foci. We are all interconnected, and so we can’t not communicate. To say that people will always depend on each other is to say that we depend on languages and other shared resources for understanding each other. Systems of communication are the ways people adapt to their own incompleteness. Many contemporary issues in anthropology and the social sciences are in one way or another concerned with the ways people communicate and the social effects of communication. This perspective is crucial when one considers that powerful forces teach people to ignore ecological relationships. The study of language in use is the antidote to an ideology of liberal individualism and its ontological blindness. In this class, we learn the main tools anthropologists use to understand communicative action through ethnographic cases of meaning-making, and how struggles over what and how things mean make the worlds people live in.((This class was originally proposed by USYD anthropology department staff with a focus on political symbols, but this year will survey linguistic anthropology. In future years, it will have a more expansive title and description, and address varying foci.
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