ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transubstantiation, Paleoanthropology, Historical Linguistics
4 Jul 2016
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Divisions between the fields are not sharp they intersect with each other quite well. Culture: a society"s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions; learned behaviour. Methodology participant observation, interviews: living in culture and writing about it later on. Ethnography a description of an aspect of culture within a society: the book about a culture being studied. Culture is not biological, it is learned socially. Trying to be holistic talk about traditions, norms, laws, geography, religion, etc. Linguistic and language is what sets us apart from animals we actually talk and think. Construction and use of language by human societies. Descriptive linguistics how language works sounds and symbols. Sociolinguistics the relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures. Estimated 12000 languages worldwide and that 6000 remain now next 100 years half of that will be gone. Study of past societies and their cultures using material remains: tools, ceramics, sites, plant remains.
