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This is a passage from the book called "THE Body." It mainly deals with cultural criticism.
Could you please help me with a couple of questions about it?
1. As for (A), I have trouble understanding why the author gives "bus tickets" as an example.
2. As for (B), does the author use the term "currency" to mean "medium"?
3. As for (C), why does the author use a quotation mark? It it en emphatic effect?
Culture is in fact the location of values, and the study of cultures shows how values varies
from one society to another or from one historical moment to another. But cultures don't
exist in the abstract. On the contrary, it is , in the broadest sense of the term textual, inscribed
in the paintings, operas, sculptures, furnishings, fashions, (A) bus tickets and shopping lists
which are (A)the currency of both aesthetic and everyday exchange. Societies invest these
artifacts with meanings, until in many cases, the meanings are so (C)"obvious" that they pass
for nature. Cultural criticism denaturalizes and defamiliarizes these meanings, isolating them
for inspection and analysis.
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kazupocketmonster 1. As for (A), I have trouble understanding why the author gives "bus tickets" as an example. Because they are physical items --- bits of paper with text written on it, and they are very common in many different countries.
- kazupocketmonster 1.
- As for (A), I have trouble understanding why the author gives "bus tickets" as an example.
- Because they are physical items --- bits of paper with text written on it, and they are very common in many different countries.
- kazupocketmonster 2.
- As for (B), does the author use the term "currency" to mean "medium"?
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kazupocketmonster1. As for (A), I have trouble understanding why the author gives "bus tickets" as an example.
Because they are physical items --- bits of paper with text written on it, and they are very common in many different countries.
kazupocketmonster2. As for (B), does the author use the term "currency" to mean "medium"?
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