ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Clifford Geertz, Homo Habilis, Biological Anthropology

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Linguistics: studies the varieties of languages; history of languages, how language is used in daily lifel, the substructure or deep structure of language. Language and hybridity: languages excellent example of how culture is shared, moves around, english not pure [even though john adams in 1780 thought it was and should be kept that way] = arabic: alcohol = al-kuhl = arabic, groundhog, lightning rod, belittle, slamdunk, to google = american. Language and who we are: sapir whorf hypothesis: language frames how we think, a person accidentally knocks a cup off a table and it broke: Spanish and japanese: the cup broke itself: english assigns agent, blame; affects memory. Language and metaphors: english and time, time horizontal. 1-5-11: major cultural transformations in human history, transition to becoming humans. 1. 2-1. 4 meters tall: brain 35% of humans, not good at using tools. Homo habilis, homo erectus [2. 3-1. 4 million years ago: handy tools.

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