ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hybridity, Conceptual Metaphor, Essentialism
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Language endangerment and biodiversity: linguistic and biological diversity have common locations, common causes and face common threats. Indigenous peoples and bio linguistic diversity: the greatest linguistic diversity is fund in some of the ecosystems richest in biodiversity inhabited by indigenous people, indigenous people represent around 4% of the world"s population, but speak at least. When a language dies, a culture dies. Indigenous people and linguistic diversity: indigenous people represent around 4% of the world"s population. Indigenous language in mexico: in addition to spanish, the government recognizes 63 indigenous languages as national, 10% of the population is native american, 5. 4% speak an indigenous language. Assume that there is something completely stable about what it means to be a man/woman. Gender is not an essential characteristic, no essential identity. Hybridity: what essentialism excludes , societies that emerge from cultural contacts of european explorers and those.
