anthropology

complexity

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languaculture

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is defined against prediction-based sciences.

In traditional science, prediction is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. All that work to carve out of predicting the latter from the former. The holy grail of the Newtonian tradition, the dream of Laplace-tell me the measurements of all the independent variables and I'll tell you how the universe will run forever.' (Agar 2004: 5)

Complexity means change, but it also means surprise within a range. (Agar 2004 .pdf)

is a professional stranger, someone who is intentionally an incompetent member of society and to whom stories are told and explained in detail.

The professional stranger is someone who is intentionally an incompetent member of society, and to whom elaborate stories (narrations) are told and explained in detail.'

is a term that reflects the fact that language is not merely a grammar and a vocabulary, but that it necessarily involves cultural habits and behaviors and includes past and local knowledges.

Languaculture is a term meaning a language that includes not only elements such as grammar and vocabulary, but also past knowledge, local and cultural information, habits and behaviours. The term was created by the American anthropologist Michael Agar.' (wiki)

is the idea that there is a necessary tie between language and culture such that you cannot really know a language if you do not know also the culture expressed by that language.

When Agar talks about languaculture, he defines it as the necessary tie between language and culture.[1] He underlines that languages and cultures are always closely related and it is not possible to distinguish languages from cultures. Therefore you cannot really know a language if you do not know also the culture expressed by that language. (WIKI)

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