Linguistic Anthropology Concentration
The Department of Anthropology has a long history of emphasizing rigorous work in the subfield of linguistic anthropology. It is axiomatic in the department that language is not just a system of signs, but a complex and embodied practice that pervades social life. As such, the discipline of linguistic anthropology provides tools and methods, as well as models of nuanced ethnographic and historical research, for students to address some of the foundational questions of the field, such as the nature of meaning, efficacy, power, agency, and personhood in cross-cultural contexts. This concentration allows students who want to focus on the politics and dynamics of language as social action to integrate their linguistic anthropological coursework into a thesis project. Students choosing this concentration will also deepen their understanding of linguistic analysis by taking at least three courses in the Linguistics Department.
Requirements
See the Academic Catalog for Linguistic Anthropology Concentration requirements.
Linguistic Anthropology Courses
- Anth 201 Topics in Contemporary Anthropology: Language Culture Power
- Anth 342 Language and Medicine
- Anth 394 Language Attrition and Endangerment
- Anth 397 Media Persons Publics
- Anth 405 Semiotic Anthropology
- Anth 411 Performance and Performativity
- Anth 465 Suffering, Narrative, and Subjectivity