Burqa and the human umwelt

We all construct models of the world by which we make sense of the phenomena we encounter. But rarely is the model of the women who wear the burqa considered. We hold that the world must be perceived through the body of the other before meaning can be assessed. We argue that the burqa is not an object, but a set of human relationships. It has no singular interpretant by which it can be understood. It is a highly nuanced semiosic phenomenon that we believe can best be understood by placing the burqa within a specific human umwelt

Aesthetics · Construct (python library) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Object (grammar) · Phenomenon · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Umwelt · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Communication · Computer Science · Families in Therapy and Culture · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy