ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Algonquin Language, Hopi Language
Document Summary
The way we think about time in english is a bounded unit; capable of segmenting time into different small segments; made for our convenience, from the earth"s orbit around the sun. Hopi language, one time is never fully separable into another time, all time flows into another time; constantly show awareness for flowing time; experiencing time in different ways than. Kinship terms: cousins, brothers and sisters; iroquois uses same words to encompass siblings/cousins; in other languages, distinguishes relatives from paternal or maternal side. Necessity in different algonquin language; animate or inanimate; maybe connecting to spiritual world. In navaho, things are influenced by people to do actions, while in english, people are seem to have control things to work (i rode a horse) We invent the world by our culture. Continents are complete figments of our own imagination; created for our own convenience but they also trap us into racial modes.
