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2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANT 315 - Culture and Communication


3-0-3

An introduction to the anthropological study of language, paralanguage, and nonverbal communication in social and cultural contexts. Topics include: primate communication; laughter language origins, change and death; language variation based on gender, ethnicity, and social class; the cross-cultural study of writing systems and literacy; and research methods in the anthropology of communication.

PR: ANT 200  or SOC 200 
Counts as an elective in the major or minor.