ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Zoological Society Of London, Seneca People, Lewis H. Morgan
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10 true or false questions based on readings. Choose 1 of 2 essay questions that 50-50 split based on lecture and readings. Sociocultural linguistics used to be referred as ethnolinguistics. Edward sapir and benjamin lee whorf: linguistic relativity: linguistic terms do not line up from culture to culture or language to language. Structure of language influences cognition, perception, action. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: the nature of a language determines the way people think, the way we perceive things and influences human action language models the physical, social and supernatural. Certain single terms in english have equivalence in paiute but paiute has many terms that in english, need more than one word to be translated. What is important to a society will be culturally elaborated in their language. Culture with great importance on cattle and animal herding, cattle used for dowries and religious ceremonies. 10 principal colour terms for solid coloured animals. 27 terms for white combined with another color.
