Sunday, September 28, 2014
Wittgenstein on Religious Belief
Hey everyone, hope you all have had a pleasant week. Thought I would post this video as a way to further our reflection on ethnographic methodology and the various mediums through which such methodology is predicated - in this instance particularly, the use of language and the way in which it may complicate/mystify/distort what is represented. How does ethnography move pass the possibility of language and linguistic/semantic/grammatical representation to be inarticulate?
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"What can be said can be said clearly, what cannot be said clearly is not in the world, and one must be silent about it." Very interesting quote. Places a very high importance on the precision of language that correlates with the idea that there must be a precision in documentation during ethnography. Still in many cases paraphrasing and twisting the meaning of words occurs, even in Anthropology. And I definitely see what you mean by the use of language, the speaker makes the idea of "the sense of god" and his inhabiting a place seem so bizarre simply through the questions he poses to the audience and his tone inflections.
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