ANTH 380Language and Culture
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1977–78
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1974–75 to 1977–78 (before that, 1970–71 to 1971–72 used the number for Cross-Cultural Analysis); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Language is examined as a vehicle of culture (a linguistics code as a device for communication), as a mirror for culture (lexical and semantic aspects), andasa tool of society (uses and functions of language). lilustrations will be from a variety of languages. Prereq: One half-credit from each of linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology
As printed in the 1977–78 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
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Fall 2017
PSA: UWCourseLinker back up, disabled by default, call with [[course code]] 39 points, 31 comments
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u/RayDWatson: “… [[ANTH352]] [[ANTH355]] [[ANTH361]] [[ANTH365]] [[ANTH370]] [[ANTH371]] [[ANTH372]] [[ANTH380]] [[ANTH381]] [[ANTH382]] [[ANTH389]] [[ANTH390A]] [[ANTH390B]] [[ANTH391]] [[ANTH393]] [[ANTH395]] [[ANTH400]] [[ANTH402]] [[ANTH403]] [[ANTH404]] [[ANTH411]] [[ANTH415]] [[ANTH420]] …”
u/UWCourseLinker: “… Canada ANTH 371 - Anthropological Field Experience ANTH 372 - Archaeological Field School ANTH 380 - Matrilineal Societies in Aboriginal North America ANTH 381 - Anthropology of South Asia ANTH 382 - Anthropology of Contemporary China ANTH 389 - Special Topics in Anthropology …”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1970–71 to 1977–78, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1977–78 1 calendar
Language is examined as a vehicle of culture (a linguistics code as a device for communication), as a mirror for culture (lexical and semantic aspects), andasa tool of society (uses and functions of language). lilustrations will be from a variety of languages. Prereq: One half-credit from each of linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1974–75 to 1976–77 3 calendars
The importance of language in culture. Language is examined as a vehicle of culture (a linguistic code as a device for communication), as a mirror for culture (lexical and semantic aspects), and as a tool of society (uses and functions of language). Wlustration will be from a variety of languages.
3 hours lecture. Prerequisite: At least one previous + half-course in linguistic and one in culturallsocial anthropology
Not in the 1972–73 to 1973–74 calendars.
1970–71 to 1971–72 2 calendars
Another title: Cross-Cultural Analysis, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Examination of theory, method, and selected achievements of comparative studies. Classic and recent literature dealing with such topics as comparability of units will be considered and a joint study undertaken as a class project. Prerequisites: 102 or permission of the instructor.