ANTH 170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Anthropology, Ethnography, Ward Goodenough
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Franz boas argues that ethnographers should learn and use the language of the people they were working with rather than trying to do their research through interpreters. English is a language that tends to put separate ideas into separate words linguists call these la(cid:374)guages (cid:862)isolati(cid:374)g(cid:863) la(cid:374)guages. Inuit, in contrast, is a language that tends to put strings of ideas into long words linguists call these la(cid:374)guages (cid:862)aggluti(cid:374)ati(cid:374)g(cid:863) la(cid:374)guages. Learning another language, then, also means learning how it organizes ideas into words, phrases, and sentences. Cultural emphasis (cid:862)the (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete (cid:448)o(cid:272)a(cid:271)ular(cid:455) of a la(cid:374)guage (cid:373)a(cid:455) i(cid:374)deed (cid:271)e looked upo(cid:374) as a (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tor(cid:455) of all the ideas, i(cid:374)terests, a(cid:374)d o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374)s that take up the atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) of the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455). (cid:863) ed(cid:449)ard. From cultural emphasis to ethnosemantics (cid:862)we lear(cid:374) (cid:373)u(cid:272)h of a (cid:272)ulture (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e lear(cid:374) the s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) of meanings for which its linguistic forms sta(cid:374)d. mu(cid:272)h des(cid:272)ripti(cid:448)e eth(cid:374)ograph(cid:455) is i(cid:374)es(cid:272)apa(cid:271)l(cid:455) a(cid:374) e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ise i(cid:374) des(cid:272)ripti(cid:448)e se(cid:373)a(cid:374)ti(cid:272)s. (cid:863) .