ANTHROP 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics
29 Aug 2016
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Anthropology: the study of humankind, viewed from the perspective of all people and all times. Culture: defined as learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person; studied by cultural anthropologists. Artifacts: material objects from past cultures such as weapons and ceramics studied by archaeologists. Language: a set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things or people that allows for the transfer of knowledge from one person to another studied by linguistic anthropologists. Sociolinguistics: a subfield of linguistics, the social context of language. Biocultural approach: a focus on both biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the study of human biological evolution and human biocultural variation and well as nonhuman hominins. Hominin: human-like beings, which first existed in africa 6-8 million years ago. Biological makeup is influenced by genome (all the genetic material in a person, 20,000-25,000 genes) and by the environment the individual is in which includes physical environment, social and cultural factors, diet, stress, etc.
