BEING HUMAN: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

Catalog description

An exploration of semiotic anthropology, the study of the production and communication of meaning through signs and symbols in human life, from both a humanistic and a scientific perspective. Special emphasis is on what it means to be human from a spatial as well as an evolutionary perspective as it relates to our sustainability crisis. The topic is crucial to our species, and to life on earth more generally, given the current globalization of modernity and the propagation of its non-sustainable definition of human being.