ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: History Of The Jews In Germany, Sociolinguistics, Acculturation
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The study of the sum total of all human phenomena, everywhere across the face of this planet and beyond and through all time. The individual as a bio cultural entity. Sociolinguistics: relevance to cultural anthropology focus on three aspects: syntactic; pragmatic cultural anthropological example from: kacchcheri. Bureauracy in sri lanka: the culture and politics of accessibility (raby) language l sinhala: word maccan: multiple meaning and usage. Brunislaw malinowski (1884-1942) studied the trobriand islands society, religion, kinship, politics. Publications: the trubriand islanders: argonauts of the wester pacifics; magicscience and religion; the diaries. Example: the kula: a. r. radcliffe-brown (1881-1955) studied african kinship and family, religion. Publication: african system of kinship and marriage. Social structure/institutions established to have a function (to keep things together) (joke, keep family together) Sanctions: positive and negative reactions of a society in make one do the things to keep society together (to do the right things)
