ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonverbal Communication, Sentence Clause Structure, Kinesics
19 Feb 2016
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Ant 1101 introduction to social & cultural anthropology. Typically rely on long-term fieldwork (depends on whether 4th year student vs. professional) Participant observation - interested in particular type of person/issue to focus on. Immersing yourself into an unfamiliar situation has challenges. Lee eating christmas in the kalahari : issue of power/authority. Over-coming personal and cultural biases and assumptions. People"s perceptions of you as a researcher. Often anthro"s (have more power b/c come from educated background) study developing nation people/minorities. Wealthy outsider; ppl. think you"re working for gov"t; ppl. need to get to know you; need to establish relationship; What is language: system of sounds or gesture, that when put together according to certain rules, - results in meanings that are intelligible to all speakers. What are the social functions of language: communicating ideas. Sociolinguistics ( ethnography of speaking": trying to understand social aspects of what"s going on, looking to figure out what rules, patterns, meanings are.
