ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Linguistic Description, Historical Linguistics, Cultural Relativism
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4 branches: biological/physical, archaeological-past human material things like clothing, food linguistic-contemporary human languages products, basically sociocultural of the past, sociocultural-study of living people, contemporary culture. Aspects of culture: shared, enculturation (learned, all encompassing and integrated, nature-culture can be adaptive and maladaptive. Ethics: biggest concern is informed consent, post ww2 era, more concern on how to research to avoid harm and can benefit others, ethics modeled on the nullemberg code. Positionality: have to be concerned with the position ur in compared to others. Interview styles: informal-chatting, unstructured- no script, may look like chatting but have set question. Anthropology is usually unstructured or informal: semi structured- may have script, more open ended (not yes/no, formal- usually have script, not open ended, closed (yes/no) Writing assignment: can use i, we, don"t have to use one says , don"t use contractions cant, don"t, wont, avoid gender specific, use active voice not passive. Style shifts-shifts in one language, depends on enviro and context.
