Linguistic anthropology, one of the four classic subfields of anthropology, seeks to analyze culture and society ethnographically and theoretically as they emerge through language and discourse. This ...

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language use in social life. Linguistic anthropologists study the diversity of the world's languages and the diversity of language use and other forms of ...

How is the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election affected by language and culture? Experience and learn how anthropologists and linguists decipher political messages, and examine the words, gestures, tone ...

Archaeology focuses on the material remains of human societies from the remote and recent past with emphasis on reconstructing and understanding past modes of human cultural adaptation and change.

Anthropology at Miami emphasizes a holistic approach to learning through experiences in a wide variety of courses, independent studies, and field research. The core courses lay a foundation in ...

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Part 1. Speech communities, contact, and variation -- 1. Speech Community / Marcyliena Morgan -- 2. Registers of Language / Asif Agha -- 3. Language Contact and Contact Languages / Paul B. Garrett -- ...

Is anthropology a science? Is it a coherent discipline at all? Those questions are as old as the field itself. They were taken up by Franz Boas in a 1904 lecture and by Clifford Geertz in a 2002 essay ...

This weekend’s annual conference of the American Anthropological Association drew more than 6,000 scholars, making it among the best-attended meetings in the organization’s history. But the robust ...

Four years ago I wrote a column about the 20th anniversary of my high school graduation and how I had nothing but bad memories about those awkward teen-age years. My main point in writing the column ...

Why study anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno? The Department of Anthropology offers a number of exciting opportunities for students to become actively involved and engaged in real-world ...