ANP 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Hopi Language, Participant Observation
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There are different kinds of fieldwork: going on digs, experiments, observational work, interviewing work, and the like. Allowing yourself to be in a position to acquire data. You do a survey, you mess up some field situations that you"re not going to use to find a little bit out about their life, you develop rationales for why you should be there. You provide a story that will hold up should the facts be brought to their attention. Start from the bottom class then work up to the top. Spend at least a year in the field. The language that humans speak governs their view of reality; it determines their perception of the world. People can think about only those things that their language can describe or express. (language influences a person"s view of the world. ) An unusual man who combined being an insurance executive and a linguistic scholar. Went to mit and became a chemical engineer.
