ANTH 316gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Openair

• School: USC
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 316gm
• Professor: Thompson Tok

Document Summary

History: often written by the conquerors history: the past. 15,000 years ago hunter and gatherers crossed the ice bridge. Linguistics - there must have been movement, they didn"t independently come up with the same language. There was a huge linguistic diversity in native american. Language is a dialect with and army and a navy. End up with language families/groupings where you can tell that they are similar. Many native american languages have been lost, ~300 native american. Spirit lake -> devils lake (you can dump stuff there whatever) Translations are never perfect, always complex, lose a lot. His fav native american word -> ok, origins were native american culture. We are more influenced by native american culture than we know. Most na languages are extinct or in high danger. Na put in boarding schools really far from their home communities, not allowed to dress in custom attire, and they were not allowed to speak native language, forced to change religion.