ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Laura Bohannan, Tiv People, Margaret Mead

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

Document Summary

He and his followers rejected the search for evolutionary stages in favor of a historical approach that traced borrowing between cultures and the spread of culture traits across geographic area. Laura bohannan: tiv people; told hamlet to tiv people, they have different interpretation about the story. Noam chomsky: created the universal grammar; believed that some rules of grammar were hard-wired into the brain and manifested them without being taught. He believes that all humans have similar linguistic abilities and thought process due to the fact that languages can be translated and any person can learn any language. William labov: linguistic variation and social class; pronunciation associated with prestige. Employers practiced sociolinguistic discrimination, using linguistic features in deciding who got certain jobs. Claude l vi-strauss: french anthropologist who proposed the idea of structuralism. Karl marx: a german political theorist and economist, he developed the idea of class stratification with industrialization.