ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Audrey Richards, Franz Boas, Adam Kadmon
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Anthro is interested in structure of power. Audrey richards: health and nutrition (zambia, africa) Their research strategies and insights inform current anthropologistacademic vs. applied anthropologists. Rooted in globalization: flow of ideas, peoples, money, goods. Generated questions about exotic peoples that early anthropologists grappled with. Franz boa and web dubois debunked the racialized theories of cultures. Boas and ///dubois historical/cultural theories of race. A system of communication that uses symbols. Symbolic: the most distinct aspect of human cultures. Apes were taught asl: chantek, the orangutan. At least 100 signs apiece: productivity and displacement. An abnormal version of a gene known as the foxp2 gene. Mutation in this single gene may have opened up the possibilities for human language. Descriptive linguistics: studies the construction of sounds. Paralanguage: a set of noises and tones of voice. 90% of emotional information gets conveyed via nonverbal ways. The hopi language: vocab and basic grammar different from the.
