2. Signalling Identity And Asserting Difference

Question 1

What is one form of marking identity?

Answer 1

Naming which can be emic meaning an inside name given by people themselves or etic which is an outside label placed on them by others.

Question 2

What are symbols

Answer 2

Something verbal or non verbal that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else with which it has no necessary or natural connection.

They are signs that have no self evident connection to the things for which they stand.

Question 3

What are the two categories of symbols

Answer 3

Non tangible: are practises and observations of certain customs

Tangible: are those can be seen and remain behind when individual is gone.

Question 4

List some tangible markers of identity

Answer 4

Clothing
*Can signify cultural national ethnic religious subcultural identity.

Body modification
* Tattooing is the practice of inscribing inked patterns on the body. Others include piercing branding cutting binding scarification teeth filing circumcisions implants shaving bodybuilding fasting which all alter or change form of body in some way.

They are used in initiation rites to indicate status or social grouping or to illustrate membership of a subgroup.

Question 5

discuss national symbols

Answer 5

National
identities are supported and encouraged by the creation and promotion of specific sets of symbols. These are both tangible and nontangible.
these may include a flag, animal or language.