ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthropological Linguistics, Medical Anthropology, Historical Linguistics
6 Oct 2016
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Dna of other animals are carried around in our genes we have 97% of same genes as chimps although we look different. Paleo anthropology fossil human and proto humans physical and genetic change chronology- early species. Looking at how the interact socially compared to humans. Medical anthropology are interest in tracing humans and disease. Anthropological linguistics is the study of spoken languages comparison and development. All animals communicate but no other can like we do. Historical linguistics, how people communicated in the past compared to now. Linguistic mechanism we can speak and animals don"t have the mouth parts that we do, all the sounds we make take different parts to make that sound. Study of a pat culture based on physical remains. Reconstructing the past and the cultures trying to make sense of them. Historical pertains to a period of time with written records but can find physical remains to find information.
