In this blog post, I am continuing my series on “must watch” videos in Anthropology by sharing 56 “must watch” Linguistic Anthropology videos! For previous blog posts in this series, check out 30 “Must Watch” Videos in Cultural Anthropology: Religion and 28 “Must Watch” Videos in Cultural Anthropology: Gender. This Read more
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In addition to speech, humans also use nonverbal communication to communicate. And we actually convey more information through nonverbal communication than we do through speech. Now, there are whole books on nonverbal communication, so this blog post cannot possibly teach you everything you need to know about nonverbal communication. So, Read more
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Does language change? Many people don’t realize it, but all languages change over time. Here are some examples. Some words are being lost because they aren’t used anymore, such as the word “typewriter.” Some new words are added, such as the word “podcasting,” along with lots of other computer-related words. Read more
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Pragmatics Linguistic Anthropology is the study of language. And this includes a ton of different topics, such as the structure of language, the evolution of language, language and gender, language and social class, how people learn languages, how languages are related to each other, and lots more! This blog post Read more
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So, Linguistic Anthropologists study language. But how exactly do they do that? In this blog post, I will talk about how linguistic anthropologists study language. Now, there are entire courses about Linguistic Anthropology research methods, so this blog post cannot possibly teach you everything you need to know about doing Read more
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This 2010 textbook presents information about Medical Anthropology. Contents include the psychobiology of health and healing, the placebo effect, the human life-cycle and health, models of diagnosis and treatment, biomedicine, Asian medicine, shamans, integrative medicine, contemporary issues in health and healing, the social context of epidemics, medicines, herbs, and dietary Read more
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I’m very excited to introduce my latest online course, “Diploma in Genetics and Evolution Through Biological Anthropology!” This course is FREE (with ads) through a well-known online course platform called Alison.com. What is Alison.com? Alison.com is a well-known online course platform. Over 21 million people from 195 countries are taking Read more
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In a previous post, I talked about gendered space, which is when physical space is divided by gender. There are some spaces meant for men and other spaces meant for women. But other aspects of life can be divided by gender as well. One example is gender and clothing. Gender Read more
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As I mentioned in a previous post, Medical Anthropology is the anthropological study of health and illness. This subfield of anthropology consists of five basic approaches. Note: Some textbooks merge some of these approaches into just three, but I was taught that there are five approaches, so that is what Read more
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You might read the title of this blog post and think, how can Anthropology be useful in international business? Isn’t Anthropology digging up arrowheads and studying human bones? Well, yes, Anthropology includes these things, but Anthropology also includes the study of cultures around the world. There are 4 fields to Read more
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