ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tunxis Community College, Patrilineality
6 Jan 2021
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As a learned system, language is the most important aspect of culture. Have no means of passing down things we have learned to next generation. The means by which culture is transmitted. Culture determines content of what we talk about. There is an idea that language has a lot to with the structure of our thought. That the language that a peoples speak conditions the way they look upon and. Language in this perspective defines our experience, provides the categories by understand their environment without language means of which we understand that experience. This idea was first put forth by two linguists: Language defines culture and is itself defined by culture towards out relatives in specific contexts. The language one speaks actually has an effect on the way one understand the. Ex: father"s brother"s children in some societies are considered siblings, mother"s. Language determines in this case the way in which we understand our universe of.
