The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Female Skeletal Health
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Female Skeletal Health
When studying Linguistic Anthropology, the idea that we develop our own language based on our environment interested me greatly. This thought piece engages with how our family, where we grow up, and our education can impact how we speak.
In my Technology and Culture course, we were tasked with reading Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron. In this essay, I discuss the unique format and goal of this ethnography, in addition to their definition of the word 'colonialism.'
Along with studying the concept of learned language, Linguistic Anthropology taught me how to look critically at how languages differ. Moreover, it stresses how much variation there is within one language.