What is the relationship between meaning, material
things, and social life? Exploration of
theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the
material embodiment of human experience and
cultural meaning in words, things, texts, and
practices. Emphasis on semiotic approaches to
culture as a system of signs that operates in
fields of social power. Introduction to
ontological approaches to ethnography as the
engagement with different worlds and realities.
things, and social life? Exploration of
theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the
material embodiment of human experience and
cultural meaning in words, things, texts, and
practices. Emphasis on semiotic approaches to
culture as a system of signs that operates in
fields of social power. Introduction to
ontological approaches to ethnography as the
engagement with different worlds and realities.
- Teacher: Oren Kosansky