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Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication , particularly the human ability to do so , and a language is any specific example of such a system . The scientific study of language is called ___MASK76___ . Questions concerning the philosophy of language , such as whether words can represent experience , have been debated since Gorgias and Plato in Ancient Greece . Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought . 20th - century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language . Major figures in ___MASK76___ include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky . Sir James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854  7 May 1941 ) was a Scottish social ___MASK68___ influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion . He is often considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology . The Collège de France , founded in 1530 , is a renowned higher education and ___MASK65___ establishment (" grand établissement ") in France . It is located in Paris , in the 5th arrondissement , or Latin Quarter , across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne . Peter Warshall ( 1940 -- 2013 ) was an ecologist , activist and essayist whose work centers on conservation and conservation - based development . He attended Camp Rising Sun in 1958 and 1959 . After receiving ab A . B . in biology from Harvard in 1964 , he went on to study cultural anthropology at l ' École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris with Claude Lévi - Strauss , as a Fulbright Scholar . He then returned to Harvard where he earned his Ph . D . in Biological Anthropology . Warshall ' s ___MASK65___ interests include natural history , natural resource management ( especially watersheds and wastewater practices ) , conservation biology , biodiversity assessments , environmental impact analysis , and conflict resolution and consensus building between divergent economic and cultural special interest groups . He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Ethiopia ; for USAID and other organizations in ten other African nations ; he has worked with the Tohono O ' odham and Apache people of Arizona ; and advised corporations such as Senco , Clorox , Trans Hygga , and SAS Airlines , as well as municipal governments such as the city of Malibu . Warshall was the Sustainability and Anthropology Editor of one of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog series , and served as an editor of its spin - off magazine , Whole Earth Review . He has taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute . He was elected to the board of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District . Warshall is a ___MASK80___ of the Global Business Network . He recently co - directed the Dreaming New Mexico project . The Académie française , known in English as the French Academy , is the pre - eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language . The Académie was officially established in 1635 by ___MASK52___ Richelieu , the chief ___MASK88___ to King Louis XIII . Suppressed in 1793 during the ___MASK72___ , it was restored as a division of the Institut de France in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte . It is the oldest of the five " académies " of the institute . Anthropology is the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies . ___MASK85___ and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies . Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life . Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans . In sociology , anthropology and ___MASK76___ , structuralism is the methodology that elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger , overarching system or structure . It works to uncover the structures that underlie all the things that humans do , think , perceive , and feel . Alternatively , as summarized by ___MASK4___ Simon Blackburn , structuralism is " the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations . These relations constitute a structure , and behind local variations in the surface phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture ". Claude Lévi - Strauss ( 28 November 1908  30 October 2009 ) was a French ___MASK68___ and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology . He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 . He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called , alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas , the " father of modern anthropology ". Franz Uri Boas ( July 9 , 1858  December 21 , 1942 ) was a German - American ___MASK68___ and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the " Father of American Anthropology ". His work is associated with the movement of anthropological historicism . < onlyinclude > Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans and is in contrast to ___MASK85___ which perceives cultural variation as a subset of the anthropological constant . Modern humans (" Homo sapiens ", primarily ssp . " Homo sapiens sapiens ") are the only extant members of Hominina tribe ( or human tribe ), a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes . They are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion ; manual dexterity and increased tool use , compared to other animals ; and a ___MASK32___ trend toward larger , more complex brains and societies . An ___MASK68___ is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology . Anthropology is the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies . Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies . Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life . Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans .