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	UAlbany Anthropology
		The Department at UAlbany is a four-field department--that is, we pursue this study of humanness through teaching and research in the subdisciplines of archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
		Anthropology majors receive a solid foundation in all four.
		Students may earn Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology and Linguistics, as well Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in each of the subfields.
	www.albany.edu /anthro (160 words)

	Anthropology, Linguistic
		Edward SAPIR, the foremost linguist among the students of Franz BOAS, served as director of anthropological research in Ottawa from 1910 to 1925, under the auspices of the GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Department of Mines.
		Applied linguistics has focused on the development of writing systems for Native languages, some based on the Roman alphabet and others on syllabics (combinations of consonant and vowel which function together in the construction of words).
		Linguistics within anthropology remains an essential part of the training of anthropologists and of their potential contribution to the communities they study, particularly in native-language teaching.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0000238 (568 words)

	blackwell encyclopedia
		Boas' second reason for considering linguistics important for the study of anthropology had to do with his feeling that linguistic study was able to provide deep insight into the workings of the human mind without the need for judgments on the part of informants.
		Chomsky's theoretical orientation took linguists away from the descriptive study of phonology and morphology and focused activity on syntax as the central formal structure of language.
		Anthropological linguists began during the same period to direct their work away from the study of formal linguistic structures, and toward the study of language use in social and cultural context.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/publications/Anthling.htm (2870 words)

	Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anthropology is considered in its role as a social science and as a broader discipline combining elements of the humanities and the natural sciences as well.
		Oddly, anthropology's ability to develop coherence from the mass of observational (fieldwork) and other data on social life&emdash;under the banner of "culture" or equivalent&emdash;is being questioned as never before, just as formerly "small" societies around the world achieve coherence, or have coherence thrust upon them.
		Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or Sociology 101, or consent of the instructor.
	www.reed.edu /academic/catalog/84.html (2835 words)

	DISCIPLINES & SUBDISCIPLINES - LINGUISTICS
		Linguistics and Anthropology are connected through the transfer of theoretical frameworks as well as, overlapping scholars.
		Linguists have benefited from both the original linguistic data collected by anthropologists and from an awareness of social and cultural factors on language usage.
		It is clear that these subdisciplines of Linguistics and Anthropology overlap in interests, theories, and methodology, in addition to sharing individuals both officially through institutional alliances as well as more informally through common research goals, and historical connections through common ancestors.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/theory_pages/Linguistics.htm (1550 words)

	Department of Sociology and Anthropology : Undergraduate Studies
		Anthropology courses help students gain an understanding of the complexity of current events within the U.S. and internationally, and the importance of recognizing and weighing equally cultural values and ideas from across the globe.
		Anthropology is a popular major for people intending to pursue professional study in medicine, psychology, education, business, and human services (e.g., social work, nursing, etc).
		For anthropology majors who do not intend to continue to graduate school, many government, non-profit, and private sector job opportunities are available, especially in positions that involve human interaction and where an understanding of multicultural issues is beneficial.
	www.umbc.edu /sociology/Pages/undergrad.html (637 words)

	OU Department of Anthropology
		Unless otherwise noted, the prerequisite for courses in anthropology numbered 3000-4999 is 1113 or junior standing.
		Anthropology of cultures and nations of the Indian subcontinent, with emphasis on the diversity of south Asian cultures, the roots of sociocultural phenomena in the history of the region, ways deep-rooted cultural understandings are manifested in everyday life, and the rapid changes and challenges now being experienced by the people and nations of south Asia.
		An archaeological and ethnological study of the pre-Spanish cultures of Mesoamerica and the Central Andes giving primary emphasis to the Maya of Yucatan, the Aztec of Mexico and the Inca of Peru.
	www.ou.edu /anthropology/Courses/3000.html (888 words)

	USYD:Arts:Department of Linguistics:Welcome to the Department of Linguistics
		Linguistics is the discipline that takes language as its particular object of study, to uncover its structures and rules and to understand how these are used in human acts of communication.
		Various linguistic theories have been proposed which attempt to characterise this underlying structure of all languages; these theories are then used as a guide for the description of individual languages and revised accordingly.
		Linguistics occupies a privileged position in the field of the humanities and sciences in that it touches on many of the central issues that concern a number of disciplines.
	www.arts.usyd.edu.au /departs/linguistics (466 words)

	SSU Anthropology: Home Page
		Linguistic Anthropology examines the structure and diversity of language and related human communication systems.
		Linguistic anthropologists are active in the design of curricula for teaching national languages to immigrants and indigenous populations.
		At a more general level, students of anthropology acquire skill in the formulation of both theoretical and practical questions regarding human life, in collecting and organizing data on many levels of human behavior, and in constructing appropriate interpretations and generalizations based on well-thought-out procedures.
	www.sonoma.edu /anthropology (734 words)

	College Catalog - Reed College
		Within linguistics, the analysis of discourse includes the study of linguistic units larger than the sentence and extends, more generally, to the study of stretches of speech (as well as written language) in the context of their use.
		We develop the notion of linguistic typology and explore proposed universals of language, based on the comparative study of the morphology and syntax of the languages of the world.
		Prerequisite: Linguistics/Anthropology 311, or Linguistics 323, or consent of the instructor.
	web.reed.edu /catalog/courses/ling/index.html (1617 words)

	Welcome to the TAMU Anthropology Department!
		Anthropology is the study of humankind over the entire world and throughout time.
		Anthropologists study existing cultures and human behavior (cultural anthropology), traditions (folklore), prehistoric cultures and lifeways (archaeology), the biological makeup and evolution of humans (physical anthropology), and the origin and nature of language (linguistics).
		In addition to teaching Anthropology courses, our faculty members are also busy conducting a variety of research projects in various parts of the world.
	anthropology.tamu.edu (576 words)

	Foreign Study Program: Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science
		Classes are held at the University of Auckland in the Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Maori Studies.
		Linguistics: Linguistics 1, “Introductory Linguistics,” and one other linguistics course in the 20s.
		Linguistics applicants use the standard application forms; anthropology applicants must complete the standard forms and one additional form relating to this program.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~anthro/fsp.html (712 words)

	Department of Anthropology
		Sociocultural anthropology is concerned with the investigation of human society, culture, and the human relation to nature through intensive ethnographic investigation and wide-ranging comparison.
		The linguistic anthropologist is concerned with phonetic, phonological, grammatical, semantic, and paralinguistic systems and with their relations to social, cultural and personal ones.
		In addition to linguistic anthropology as a sub-field within the Department of Anthropology, there is also a joint Ph.D. program available to students who are admitted first to the Department of Anthropology and subsequently to the Department of Linguistics.
	catalogs.uchicago.edu /divisions/anthro.html (1487 words)

	Anthropology (ANTHRO)
		This introductory Anthropology course is designed to introduce students to important scholarly and practical concepts in the study of race and racism historically and across cultures.
		A distinctive contribution of cultural anthropology to the discipline and to the wider intellectual world is ethnography, a way of studying people in their own settings through intensive participant-observation and then communicating the results.
		Prerequisite: Anthropology 2705 (0125) or consent of the instructor.
	www.temple.edu /bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_anthro.html (5632 words)

	University of Texas Press: Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics
		In this pathfinding book, Gary B. Palmer restores imagery to a central place in studies of language and culture by bringing together the insights of cognitive linguistics and anthropology to form a new theory of cultural linguistics.
		It will be important reading for everyone interested in anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy.
		Gary B. Palmer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/paltow.html (241 words)

	St. Lawrence University: Anthropology
		In recognition of the diverse approaches to the study of humanity that anthropology involves, the department offers introductory courses in each of the principal branches of the discipline: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology and linguistics.
		Outside the classroom, students are welcome to join the Anthropology Club, a student-run organization open to anyone with a strong interest in anthropology, whether or not they have declared majors or minors in it.
		Anthropology 420 (Views of Human Nature) is designed as the capstone senior seminar for anthropology majors.
	web.stlawu.edu /programs/anthropology.html (1372 words)

	Structural Anthropology, by Claude Lévi-Strauss
		It was a linguist and a philologist (Schrader and Rose) who showed the improbability of the hypothesis of matrilineal survivals in the family in antiquity, to which so many anthropologists still clung at that time.
		The linguists employed a more rigorous method, and their findings were established on more solid grounds; the sociologists could follow their example in renouncing consideration of the spatial distribution of contemporary types as a basis for their classifications.
		We know that to obtain a structural law the linguist analyses phonemes into "distinctive features," which he can then group into one or several "pairs of oppositions." Following an analogous method, the anthropologist might be tempted to break down analytically the kinship terms of any given system into their components.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/levistra.htm (7327 words)

	Anthropology
		Anthropology is excellent preparation for many different types of careers, but generally speaking, an undergraduate program in anthropology does not train students for any career in particular.
		Students are often able to complete requirements for the anthropology major while studying off-campus (specific requirements might be fulfilled by, for example, taking an archaeology or biological anthropology course or an anthropology course focusing on a particular region; anthropology courses can also be taken that help fulfill the requirement of 8 units for the major).
		Although anthropology and sociology are separate and distinct disciplines, they also have many things in common: theories and methodologies, a focus on cultural similarities and differences and a commitment to international and/or global studies.
	www.albion.edu /anthsoc/anthropology.asp (2036 words)

	Department of Anthropology \|\| Linguistics Home Page
		Linguistics is the systematic study of human language through analysis of its parts and how they are combined in varying social contexts.
		Linguists study the "nuts and bolts" of language in five principal domains:
		Sociolinguistics is the study of how language and social status interact, principally within one society through regional dialects (or accents) and variation based on factors such as ethnicity and class.
	www.csuohio.edu /ant/linguistics.html (270 words)

	Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics
		The faculty of the Department of Anthropology reflect a range of overlapping specializations, consistent with the diversity of the discipline.
		These regional strengths of the department are complemented by a number of interdisciplinary programs on the UIUC campus, which provide a wealth of resources--from language training, to speaker series, to financial support for preliminary research and language study abroad.
		The fuzzy and fertile boundaries between history and anthropology, between past and present, and between memory and experience, are indispensable reference points and constant resources for innovation for anthropology.
	www.anthro.uiuc.edu /department/scl/scl.htm (890 words)

	Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i
		Anthropology has focused on describing the system of categories that a culture uses to organize the world, but has largely neglected to show how those categories are actually used in social action and how items are assigned to categories.
		Linguistic anthropology is one of the traditional four subfields of anthropology.
		The linguistic anthropology courses, as taught in the UH Anthropology Department, attempt to examine these questions, as well as dealing with other traditional themes of linguistic anthropology.
	www.anthropology.hawaii.edu /programs/specialization/discpage.htm (1385 words)

	Anthropology Resources on the Internet
		OSEA The Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology is a non-degree school without walls that offers ethnographic training programs to undergraduates and graduate students.
		The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution that engages in envrionmentally sustainable development through equitable economic growth and respect for human rights.
		World Council of Anthropology Associations - is a network of national and international associations that aims to promote worldwide communication and cooperation in anthropology.
	www.aaanet.org /resinet.htm (2326 words)

	International Linguistics Center
		The International Linguistics Center houses the international headquarters of SIL International.
		The SIL linguistics training and expertise is focused on less-studied languages and people groups throughout the world.
		The library on the campus is unique and substantial in the field of linguistics and anthropology.
	www.sil.org /sil/ilc.htm (232 words)

	Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference \| American University Anthropology Department
		Anyone who examines language, gender and sexuality "at the site" is studying how speakers use language to construct and contest claims to subject position within that context, and how language use itself is shaped and informed by that process.
		In recent years, the focus of conversation has expanded, to ensure that linguistic practices under discussion are situated within social, political, and historic contexts.
		The ongoing discussions of "talking queer in French," "language and sexual geography," "language and homophobic discourse," and "racializing sexuality and gender” during previous Lav Lgs conference and the discussion on “les-being and doing” which began at Lav Lgs XI are good examples of these struggles and their outcomes.
	www.american.edu /lavenderlanguages (495 words)

	Linguistics/TESL Programs
		Students who select a major in Linguistics for the BA degree must complete 24 units of specific core courses and then complete the rest of their major units via either an "Elective Track" or a "Minor Track."
		Depending on a number of factors, including which field is selected for those opting for the Minor Track, the unit overlap with General Education will vary.
		One course, selected in consultation with the Coordinator/Advisor, from the list of Approved Elective Courses as found in the description of the BA Elective Track.
	www.csun.edu /linguistics/bachelor.html (427 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.49: Sociolinguistics & anthropological Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics BEYOND EBONICS: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice John Baugh, Stanford University The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics", however the idea remains a mystery to most.
		John Baugh, a well-known African-American linguist and education expert, offers an accessible explanation of the origins of the term, the linguistic reality behind the hype, and the politics behind the outcry on both sides of the debate.
		They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-49.html (900 words)

	Journals and Series
		Publications in Linguistics is a series published jointly by SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington.
		The series is a venue for works covering a broad range of topics in linguistics, especially the analytical treatment of minority languages from all parts of the world.
		It was specifically intended to provide linguistic field workers with news, reviews, announcements, and articles that stimulated interest in linguistics and helped them to stay current.
	www.ethnologue.com /bookstore/journals_series.asp (577 words)

	Department of Anthropology >> Courses
		he program in anthropology, offering a B.A. degree, is designed to provide students with a strong general background in anthropology preparatory to graduate studies or anthropological employment in fields such as qualitative research, archeology, foreign relations, international business, international law, and social work.
		Survey of the four sub-fields of anthropology: physical or biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, integrated to present a coherent picture of the origins, development, and diversity of humanity and its past and present cultures.
		Anthropology of communication, including analysis of speech events, language, status and gender, language and identity, political and economic language, cognitive anthropology, cultural classification systems, and ethnoscience.
	www.cas.utulsa.edu /anthropology/courses.html (1214 words)

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