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Stop comparing yourself to others. For we have our own pace. Each and everyone is unique. We are our own, and we do things that we know are best. Society, undeniably, dictates our principles, stances, and decisions however, it must not stop us to exert the effort of control on expression, our right to show our own interpretation of freedom, showcasing creativity, and the talents we possess. 

Before I start the long narrative, I uploaded my first video on my trip to Guam! please check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAXJBX4TL8&t=82s  Thanks guys xoxo

It was a mixture happiness (specifically kilig), enthusiasm, and awkwardness. I would like to share this by listing it into 5 moments! 

1. I met my former crush that I’ve easily moved on to. She tapped my arm in the usual way we had communication back then. She apologised for what happened for the last 6 months that we cut off our friendship? And it was surprising that she remembers the exact date that awkward situation when and where that took place. I ended up accompanying her to the library and talked primarily about her lovelife that I wasn’t anticipating that happened last year and the past 6 months. 

2. I arrived finally from Guam, I spent my mini “vacation” break for 4 days. I had so much fun, for I witnessed my first celebration of Japan club of Guam’s annual autumn festival, got to shop at Micronesia Mall particularly at Ross, roamed around the island, explored Two Lover’s Point (and day dreaming about my current crushie lol), drop by the post office to send some PH stuff to my dad, went back to the old GPO (Forever 21, back to Ross which had a crazy checkout line, etc.) and finally welcoming people Tita Lolit, Tita Lina, Tito Nandi, and Tita Myrna are the one’s who accommodated me to this wonderful trip. I can’t thank them enough. 

3. I gave my current crush the latest copy Archaeology, he was surprised, and I blushed in front of him (I hope he didn’t noticed it huhu)  he looks grateful about it. Thanks to Nev for giving me that “lakas ng loob.” On the one hand, I’m looking forward to taking photos of some of the collections in the mini museum of my department and transforming it as a part of a coffee table book which my crushie wishes to accomplish. :) KINIKILIG AKO BESH! 

4. My mother feels so much better without chemotherapy. She looks happy, and thankfully she maintains the diet that Dr. Farrah and her associates advised her to intake. Our mantra is NO processed food - as I posted on our reminder wall. I love you mom, I know you’ll eventually be C-Free. 

5. I am looking forward to attending my department’s centennial celebration of Anthropology in the Philippines. Especially on the lecture about online anthropology. Oh my god, I need to do my research huhu. Semester is ending soon!

Readings from Alesandro Duranti

Introduction 

We humans have the innate ability to learn language. Language plays a role in people lives. Studying language goes beyond grammar as we use it to yield social action. 

Context, manner of using language is culturally mediated. 

Linguistic anthropology - is one of anthropology’s subfields that primarily focused on the theory and practice of language.

Means to study language -> utterances -> shape meanings -> language produced 

key people: Dell Hymes; Marcel Mauss; Antoine Meillet; Claude Levi-Strauss; Roger Brown; Leonard Bloomfield; 

Goals of Linguistic Anthropology: 

1. Importance of Language through the understanding of culture and society 

2. Relevance of cultural and social phenomena of understanding of languages 

Synonyms: Anthropological linguistics; Sociolinguistics; diverged meanings, different roots/history related but separate research enterprises. 

Anthropological Linguistics v. Linguistic anthropology 

William Foley - subfield of linguistics; concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context; role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structures. 

Chomskian Revolution: encouraged “autonomous” models of grammar and discourage the study of cultural or sociological dimensions of language. 

Main Concerns of Anthropological Linguistics 

(1) documentation of grammatical structures of indigenous languages without writing. 

(2) language as the medium (myths, historical narratives could take form) 

(3) use of language as a window on culture (worldview or weltanschauung)

!!! - many anthropologist still take language for granted, they define language as a mere transparent medium for culture. 

Mainstream Linguistics - fundamentally concerned with structures of languages or grammar rather that who those who use it [speakers] 

Ethnoscience - studying nomenclatures and taxonomies (animals, plants, types, of disease, etc.); genetic relations among languages (comparative method); impact of culture on language (euphemism, taboos, sacred or respectful terms) 

Technical Linguistics - use of linguistic data for research; “cultural studies without linguistic consideration tend to be narrowly sociological rather than broadly anthropological” 

Linguistic Anthropology - 1870s, designate a distinctly anthropological approach to the study of language. [Hymes]; study of language within the context of anthropology.

concerns: (1) study of language - central part of anthropology; (2) broaded study of language beyond grammatical structures - forms in relation to the context of their use. 

a time to yearn for a caress. 

disappointment - 

inevitable unfair circumstance. 

it kills me, and every one of us

negative emotions 

everyone would take its caution 

either face it head on or succumb oneself to isolation 

you and I have the choice.

keep in mind we posses the chance to make it up ourselves 

we all get a chance 

a time to heal, change, and redeem oneself.