ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Franz Boas, Linguistic Anthropology
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How universe perceived, how language perceived, and how varies between culture to culture. Boas anthropologist trained in physics and mathematics who was on an expedition to test seawater and observed the inuit and found that more interesting started to study culture. I(cid:374)uit (cid:449)ords for (cid:858)seal(cid:859: generic (cid:858)seal(cid:859, male/female seals, seals of different ages, seal basking in the sun, seal floating on piece of ice, others. Franz boas: founder of modern anthropology. First professional anthropologist: first fieldwork of his done in arctic. Sapir giant of linguistic anthro: very interested in linguistic relativity phenomenon, developed theory with whorf. Theory that linguistic terms do not line up word to word in each language universally. Whorf was a student of sapirs: never taught or worked as an anthropologist but contributed a lot to linguistic anthropology. November 21st 2016: says that the world is encoded linguistically for you before you are born because you are learning linguistically encoded words as you are born.
