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  2. Displacement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The degree of displacement in this example remains limited when compared to human language. A bee can only communicate the location of the most recent food source it has visited. It cannot communicate an idea about a food source at a specific point in the past, nor can it speculate about food sources in the future. [2]

  3. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    While primate communication utilizes the first 9 features, the final 4 features (displacement, productivity, cultural transmission, and duality) are reserved for humans. [citation needed] Hockett later added prevarication, reflexiveness, and learnability to the list as uniquely human characteristics. He asserted that even the most basic human ...

  4. Migration studies - Wikipedia

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    This means that they do not meet the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees definition of a refugee, even though they may have similar experiences, and though the conditions which led to their displacement may closely resemble those which provoke refugee movements. Studies on internal displacement frequently focus on the complications ...

  5. Syntactic movement - Wikipedia

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    The examples above use an underscore to mark the position from which movement is assumed to have occurred. In formal theories of movement, these underscores correspond to actual syntactic objects, either traces or copies depending on one's particular theory. [4] e.g. b. Which story 1 has John told Peter that Mary likes t 1?

  6. Anthropological linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Anthropological linguistics is one of many disciplines which studies the role of languages in the social lives of individuals and within communities. [4] To do this, experts have had to understand not only the logic behind linguistic systems – such as their grammars – but also record the activities in which those systems are used. [4]

  7. Applied anthropology research methods - Wikipedia

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    Boas was born 1858 and died in 1942. He contributed many practices and studies towards applied anthropology and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Anthropology". Boas was one of the first to look at anthropology as a science and as a means of understanding the different cultures and people around the world.

  8. Deterritorialization - Wikipedia

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    Politics of deterritorialization and the displacement of sociological will lead the struggle between state and nation. One important new feature of global cultural politics, tied to the disjunctive relationships among the various landscapes which proposed by Appadurai, is that state and nation are at each other's throats, and the hyphen that ...

  9. Outline of anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Cyborg anthropology – studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective; Museum anthropology – domain that cross-cuts anthropology's sub-fields; Philosophical anthropology – dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person