[ANTHRO 2D] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (49 pages long!)
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Goals for today: a brief history of linguistic anthropology, an introduction of themes + methods. Primitive people represented earlier stages of human evolution, less prestigious: colonizers represent the top of what humans can achieve, weak vs. strong, primitive people assumed inferior to western society. Relativism cultural relativism understanding cultures on (and in) their own terms: learn why they do what they do, empathetic position towards others with a different cultures, can"t understand them without any inside knowledge. Language and culture grows up there"s a lot of meaningful variation in performance and differences (e. g. chicago, R -lessness and social class communities (large and small) are often formed based on linguistic variation speech community: groups of people who use similar ways of speaking. Making sounds phonetics the description and analysis of every possible human speech sound all possess this phonology the study of sounds and their distribution within particular language and language varieties specific to a given language.
