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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2170268" data-attributes="member: 246624">In the first part of this discussion, I reminded you that we are talking about &quot;falsehoods.&quot; &quot;Falsehood&quot; is a term I and others have co-opted and have used for well over a decade in anthropology and biology courses across the land.&nbsp; The idea is to identify a statement that, when uttered in some particular demographic or sociocultural context, invokes a relatively consistent set of meanings in the minds of those present, such that those meanings are at least iffy, probably wrong, and often (but certainly not always) offensive and destructive in some way. Such a construct ... this falsehood thingie ... can then be de-constructed in a way that becomes an enlightening learning experience.&nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/MhT7xq2dzVw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/MhT7xq2dzVw/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2170268, member: 246624"] In the first part of this discussion, I reminded you that we are talking about "falsehoods." "Falsehood" is a term I and others have co-opted and have used for well over a decade in anthropology and biology courses across the land. The idea is to identify a statement that, when uttered in some particular demographic or sociocultural context, invokes a relatively consistent set of meanings in the minds of those present, such that those meanings are at least iffy, probably wrong, and often (but certainly not always) offensive and destructive in some way. Such a construct ... this falsehood thingie ... can then be de-constructed in a way that becomes an enlightening learning experience. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/MhT7xq2dzVw[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/MhT7xq2dzVw/primitive_cultures_are_simple_4.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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