ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
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Anta02 lecture 1 introduction to the course. Biological/evolutionary: human population change from an evolutionary perspective, disease, migration, diet, nutrition, biological diversity, etc. Linguistic anthropology: human communication (including non-verbal) language systems, discourse analysis , how language shapes and reflects people"s values, beliefs, worldviews. Disclaimer: from now on, whenever anthropology is mentioned, unless otherwise specified, we mean sociocultural. Anthropology is not about exoticism: seek to understand differences as well as ourselves, get outside our comfort zones. How we suse language, and what language tells us about our cultures and values (jones & schieffelin, miner) Making sense of englishness ; contrasting uk culture with canadian culture (fox) Cultures that form in unexpected places (wesch, ethnography of youtube) What the exchange of gifts tells us about human societies (durham, leinaweaver) Looking at religion from an anthropological perspective (evans-pritchard, ashforth) Sex, gender, and everything in between (kulick, wardlow) Understanding poverty, inequality, and structural violence (scheper-hughes, bourgeois.
