AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films, youtubes, etc)

[Jenny L Davis]

Here are a few suggestions that have worked well in the classroom: 

Our Spirits Don't Speak English (Impact of boarding schools on Native American Languages)

Through Deaf Eyes (Covers history of ASL and Deaf community in US)

We Still Live Here (excellent new documentary on language revitalization among the Wampanoag Nation)

And I'll second Jennifer Dickenson's suggestion of Multilingual Hong Kong.


Jenny L. Davis
Henry Roe Cloud Fellow 2011-2012
Yale University


Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Jennifer.Davis at colorado.edu
http://spot.colorado.edu/~jennifed


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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:20:24 -0500
>From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org> (on behalf of Alejandro Paz <alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA>)
>Subject: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films, youtubes, etc)  
>To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm teaching a second-year introduction to ling anth for the first time. 
>The sister courses in socio-cultural here use a great deal of AV 
>material, along with the lectures and tutorial discussions. I'd be very 
>grateful for any recommendations for useful movies, youtube clips, and 
>the like that others have found useful to teach ling anth topics. For 
>example, I have found the comedian Russell Peters is useful for 
>introducing students to ethnicity and race with language. There's a 
>youtube clip from one of his shows on "cultural names" that works well.
>
>I have a feeling that this has been asked before, and if so, feel free 
>to point me to the archived discussion. If not, I'm happy to collate the 
>answers that I get into a blog post or the like.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Alejandro
>
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>---------------------------------------------------- Alejandro Paz 
>Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities University of Toronto 
>Scarborough Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics University of 
>Toronto -----------------------------------------------------