My answer, Paula: yes.My body, with its various parts, is an artefact; according to context, symbol or tool. My face and my 5 o'clock shadow is a symbol just as much as the shirt I wear. My teeth a tool just as much as a can opener.
Andy Paula M Towsey wrote:
For some inexplicable reason while watching Mike's blind man with a stick video, I remembered smsing Carol with a quirky question: if a researcher without a knife is trying to open an airline packet of peanuts, and she resorts to using her teeth, what tool is she using? Though, perhaps the better question would be - is she using a tool.?_________________________________ Paula M Towsey PhD Candidate: Universiteit Leiden Faculty of Social Sciences_______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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