ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Predicable, Consanguinity, Lewis H. Morgan
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Overview: boas, sapir / whorf / linguistic relativity, body parts, geography, colour, kinship terminology. Boas did his first fieldwork with inuit in baffin island. He reported that the inuit have 5 or 6 words for snow, the story became distorted: became 10 words, became over a hundred words. Seals are one of the principle resources for inuits. Seal floating on a piece of ice. Boas was one of the great teachers of anthropology; one of his students was edward. Sapir became the first expert in in aboriginal american languages, developed the first handbook. The two of them (but mainly whorf) developed the idea of: linguistic relativity. Structure of language influences thought, cognition, perception, action. Language models the physical, social and supernatural. Whorf analyzed aboriginal languages and realized that many aboriginal words/ expressions cannot be translated into other languages (english) From infancy, our experiences are already categorized for us. Body parts often serve as metaphors for other things: