ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Relativity, Grammar, Joint Attention
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Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across human history. Draws and builds upon knowledge from social and biological. Tries to look at the human from a holistic perspective. The world does not divide into the pious and the superstitious. There are sculptures n jungles and paintings in deserts. Political order is possible without centralized power and principled justice without codified rules. The norms of reason were not fixed in greece. The evolution of morality not consummated in england. We see the lives of others through lenses of our own grinding and that they look back on ours through ones of their own. 6 short answer but choose 3 out of 67. Linguistic anthropology: the role of language in human social life, language consists of signs/symbols. Charles sanders peirce a sign is anything which stands to somebody for something else in some respect or capacity.
