ANTH 1150 Lecture 12: Week 12 Culture Change.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Cultural change: document changes barker, promote change brody. Definition of culture: time being used when studying culture, synchronic description of culture, description of a culture within a short period of time, static presentations, films ongka, diachronic description of culture, description of culture across time (historical) Processes of change: there are both internal and external motivations for change, ralph linton"s main reasons for culture change discovery and invention, diffusion, Words: diffusion is related to discovery and invention, 3 step process to diffusion: 1. identify new thing , 2. Meant to help you cease to be an indian : c3) genocide: extermination of 1 group at hands of another in name of progress . Language change: languages change with time and distance: ex 1. Athapaskan languages: spoken in yukon, nwt, northern b. c, northern. Alberta but also by people in arizona, new mexico, navajo, apache happened due to long migration earlier in history: ex 2. Indo-european language common ancestor language proto-indo.