we're going to celebrate on thursday, when i don't have so many classes and donna doesn't have to work. i've gotten one present so far-- my mom sent me a book by baudrillard that i really wanted. i think c. got me something too, i wonder what it is. hee hee. i think we're taking a trip to utah after my school is over.

i'm too tired to write anything but here are some good marshall sahlins quotes i'm using in my paper. love, becky

�Human social experience is the appropriation of specific percepts by general concepts ... The use of conventional concepts in empirical contexts subjects the cultural meanings to practical revaluations ... Nothing guarantees either that intelligent and intentional subjects, with their several social interests and biographies, will use the existing categories in prescribed ways.�

�In action, people put their concepts and categories into ostensive relations to the world. Such referential uses bring into play other determinations of the signs, besides their received sense, namely the actual world and the people concerned. Praxis is, then, a risk to the sense of signs in the culture-as-constituted, precisely as the sense is arbitrary in its capacity as reference. Having its own properties, the world may then prove intractable. It can well defy the concepts that are indexed to it.�