--- title: Linguistic Anthropology description: Linguistic anthropology studies how language shapes social life, identity, and cultural beliefs. Learners will understand the relationship between communication and social power, language variation, and how speech influences human perception and social interaction. category: humanities subcategory: anthropology difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/linguistic-anthropology --- # Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic anthropology studies how language shapes social life, identity, and cultural beliefs. Learners will understand the relationship between communication and social power, language variation, and how speech influences human perception and social interaction. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Society for Linguistic Anthropology Site of the American Anthropological Association section for linguistic anthropology, with news, conference programs, teaching materials, and access to the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Useful for tracking current scholarship and finding practitioners. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://linguisticanthropology.org/ **Tags:** linguistic anthropology, scholarly society, journal of linguistic anthropology, american anthropological association ### 2. ethnologue.com Ethnologue is a comprehensive, searchable database of the world’s living languages, featuring detailed language profiles, language-family classifications, speaker numbers, endangerment status, dialect information, and maps of geographic distribution. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ethnologue.com **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology ### 3. livingtongues.org Living Tongues is a nonprofit dedicated to documenting endangered languages and supporting language preservation. The site features project overviews, language profiles, multimedia recordings, and resources on language documentation, revitalization, and community language work. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://livingtongues.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology ## Books ### 1. Language, Culture, and Society **Author:** Zdenek Salzmann, James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi Standard introductory textbook for linguistic anthropology courses, covering language structure, variation, thought, ideology, and globalization. Students finish able to describe how speech communities encode social identity and how fieldwork on language is conducted. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813345405?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology ### 2. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes **Author:** Daniel L. Everett Everett's account of three decades among the Pirahã of the Amazon, whose language lacks numbers and recursion. Readers see how fieldwork is actually done and why the Pirahã case challenges universal grammar. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1846680409?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, anthropology ## Courses ### 1. Miracles of Human Language Leiden University's Coursera course, taught by Marc van Oostendorp, surveys how human languages differ and what they share, with interviews of native speakers and guest linguists. Completing it gives a working grasp of phonology, morphology, syntax and language typology. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/human-language **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, linguistics --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/linguistic-anthropology