ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonetics
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Lecture 4 language and culture + film: ishi, the last yahi. Mid 19th century world exhibitions of diverse cultures and displays of rising technology (largely to do with building structural marvels in exhibition cities) Language is more than just sound and phonetics, has to be experienced in use, how words are used, dialect, emphasis, etc. Intro writing something about columbus severely depleting the local population with disease and such, didn"t finish reading, 10 000 000 to 300 0000. Ishi the last of the deer creek tribe who still speaks his native language, rest are dead. Anthropologists worked with him to try and communicate with him after three years of not hearing a language he could understand. Interpreter hired, but spoke different dialect, still managed to recognize ishi as yahi. Alfred kroeber named him ishi, the yahi word for man . Culture found in things/objects, language, kinship, canoe types. Kroeber telegraphed dr. edward sapir, expert linguist, could not come.
