ANT100Y1 Lecture : Linguistic Anthropology Lecture 1

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

we learn it and transmit it to each other, typically through language. language also divides us among each other. how different people are is fundamental to the history of anthropology. Who are other people, how are we to understand them? . what is not constituted by our genes. we will be discussing nurture , similar to culture. how homo sapiens adapts so easily mostly b/c of our cultures. the ability to have a culture and a language are human universals. anthropology started in the west and it dealt with the differences between western vs. on- western people. It started during imperialism when countries like england rules land outside the western world. ethnocentrism: looking at the world through the point of view of your culture. you can t judge another culture because they are equal (cultural relativist point of view)