ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sedentism, Signify, Mulatto

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Franz boas: believes in the cultural relativism of language disagrees with universality of cultures. Kwakiutl, pacific northwest: must report in their description how they know that someone else performed that task- built into their grammar. Laura bohannan: tiv, nigeria: tested universality of human nature by showing. Native people had very different explanations for the story/remade it. Ex. thought bad guys in hamlet were good and good guys were a tivs witch because morals are evaluated differently. Noam chomsky: argued for universal grammar: basic set of principles and rules that underlie all languages, all humans have similar linguistic abilities and thought processes. William labov: study about new york r use and socioeconomic status-nyc department store (sold expensive goods pronounced r more strongly than those in the lower class stores) Claude levi-strauss: regardless of society or culture people think similarly. Altered the way westerners look at other civilizations.