ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participant Observation, Sociolinguistics, Jane Goodall
18 Sep 2017
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We tend to think about many of our behaviors as natural/biological but many are. Ex: nationalism uses terms like it"s in my blood to be american, but those is the. The erroneous idea that one"s culture and values are right to another"s. Understand how different aspects are interrelated (politics, economics) Interdisciplinary approach (better understanding of people and their life) Our upbringings and biology determine who we are. Study of contemporary cultures; work with informants. Ethnography - description of an aspect of culture within a society. Studies construction and use of language by societies. Sociolinguistics, the relationship between language and social behavior in cultures. Study of past societies and their culture using material remains. Studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species (and our closest relatives), last and present. Study human evolution, forensics, primatology and other areas. ex: jane goodall. Physical anthropologist, studied chimp behavior in gombe park, tanzania.
