ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sweet Potato, Franz Boas, Linguistic Anthropology
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He was the first anthropologist in north america. He published over 700 articles/books on a bunch of things on north american indians. He encouraged his students to learn the language of the people they were studying. It is a research strategy that says to look at the whole thing case study on kapauku: It was a small society but it was in endemic warfare with another society. Pigs are the key to political influence for men. This is because pigs are the way you get married. You have to get pigs from your own family. You do this by marrying each other between villages. You learn a lot more when you live among the people you"re studying. You could be killed, harmed, diseases etc. ex. Shakespeares in the ghetto is an article he wrote. Language is a specialized type of communication system. Having control of information is important of empires and military. 2. you do need linguistics to do linguistic anthropology.
