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Chapter 5 Communication and Language

Chapter 5 Communication and Language. What are the symbolic properties of communication? What do anthropologists mean when they say language is an open system?

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Chapter 5 Communication and Language

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  1. Chapter 5Communication and Language • What are the symbolic properties of communication? • What do anthropologists mean when they say language is an open system? • The origins of spoken language are unknown. But know what we can learn from Creole Languages, Pidgin Languages, and Children’s Acquisition of Language • Understand what the process of linguistic divergence • What is sociolinguistics?

  2. Chapter 6Getting Food • What is foraging and what are the characteristics of foragers? • What is food production and what are the types of food production systems? • Know the characteristics for each system according to: • Food shortages • Degree of inequality • Full time craft specialists • Political leadership

  3. Chapter 7Economic Systems • Be familiar with the allocation of resources according to the following groups: Foragers, Horticulturalists, Pastoralists, Intensive Agriculturalists, and the concepts associated with Colonialism, the State, and Land Rights • What does Conversion of resources mean? • What do anthropologists mean when they speak about division of labor? • What are the ways in which goods and services are distributed to members of society? • What is meant by the “world wide trend toward commercialization?” • Be familiar with Diamond’s explanation of inequality in the world

  4. Chapter8Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism • What is social stratification, and what are the three main areas that anthropologists have observed over time? • How do egalitarian, rank, and class societies differ? • What is racism? • Be familiar with the socially constructed nature of race • What is ethnicity?

  5. Chapter 10Sex, Gender, and Culture • Know the difference between sex and gender • What do anthropologist mean by saying that humans are sexually dimorphic? • What are gender roles? Be prepare to give examples • Be familiar with the theories that explain why we have different gender roles • Understand the concept of the relative status of women in society • Be familiar with Marvin Harris’ arguments about homosexuality

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