CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociolinguistics
3 Sep 2015
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Section: what is cultural anthropology, study of culture and beliefs around the world. Will learn much about different groups around the world, but not all of them: dr. joanna davidson. Does research and work in south africa: how different groups of people in africa are affected by climate, types of anthropology change, archeology. Focuses on human biology within framework of human evolution, emphasizing interaction between biology and culture: evolution, genetics, etc, linguistic (sociolinguistics) Language separates man from animal: how languages develop in different parts of the world, words that aren"t easily translatable into other languages truly show an insight into other languages, ex: schadenfreude . Taking pleasure in someone else"s pain or misery: cultural (sociocultural) Describes, analyzes, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences: culture organizes nature in many different ways, ex: how we eat, everyone eats, but .
