ANTH 1031 Lecture 10: Week #9 (Lectures 10 & 11)
15 Mar 2017
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Construction is a basic mental activity (cultural construction) Through cultural construction people make order in the universe of their perception: identity is a de nition of others but also of oneself, identity is a process. When does identity come to the fore and under what circumstances: during times of crisis (whether personal or social, during wartime (political, nationality, economics) Linguistic anthropology draws from a wide range of disciplines. It examines the structure and patterning of a particular language and the situations (social contexts) within which language is used. It is comparative (we better understand the relationship between language and culture by means of comparison) All languages are relative and are effective forms of communication; they cannot be ranked (linguistic relativism) Linguistic ethnocentrism is the opposite of the above point. The sapir-whorf hypothesis is that language determines thought (linguistic determinism: this is partly true language does not determine thought, but it does in uence.
