ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Rihla, Michel De Montaigne, Ancient Society
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Sociocultural anthropology: an anthropological approach that retains the british focus on social anthropology at the same time as it adds the american focus on culture to produce something slightly different from either one. We cannot take anything about even our own beliefs and behaviour for granted, let alone the behaviour and beliefs of those whose backgrounds and histories differ from our own. Archaeology (=the branch of anthropology that studies human history and its artifacts. : prehistoric, historical, experimental. Linguistic anthropology (=the study of the relationship between language and culture. : descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language and culture. Sociocultural anthropology (=the study of how societies are structured and how cultural meanings are created. : ethnography, fieldwork, monographs. Sociolinguistics: language as marker of social status. Culture: the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another,including the meanings that people give to things,events,activities, and people.
