ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Constructed Language, Marine Biology
30 Mar 2020
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Video we watched: cheese makers, marine biologist, haitian refugees. Linguistic anthropology: extinct language, written, spoken, structural linguists (form, vocabulary, syntax; ex. How and why used by fandoms of 2. Archeology: the most glamorized form of anthropology, study of past societies, material remains (architecture, tools, pottery) left at sites, ex. El castillo/ temple of kukulkan, maya, yucatan, mexico: archeologists work in teams of 10-100, often from different universities. In former yugoslavia forensics digging up mass graves: trying to determine who the individuals are. Ritualized forms of sexuality tend to happen more often in societies with extreme sexual segregation. With missionaries these practices have started to decline: notions of gender inequality are produced by the language the scientists have used in the. Gender and inequality scienti c literature: the egg is presented as passive and helpless (language used: wastefull) and the sperm in the active (language: amazing, miraculous)
